Chichewa

WALS coordinates: 14° S, 34° E

spoken in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nyanja
Routledge:
  • Nyanja
Other:
  • Cewa,
  • Chewa
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing Morphology
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30A Number of Genders Five or more Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Non-sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects Instrument and locative Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Exceed Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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138A Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages S[Neg-V]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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