1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Chaha

WALS coordinates: 8° N, 37° 30′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gurage (Central West)
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Gurage (Chaha),
    • Chaha Gurage,
    • Gurage (Central West)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
    Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XOV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    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 OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
    Applicative Constructions Benefactive object; only transitive
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Question particle