1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Surmic

Chai

WALS coordinates: 5° 19′ 48.00″ N, 35° 19′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Suri
Routledge:
  • Tirma
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative before and after Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different