Dahalo
WALS coordinates: 2° 19′ 48.00″ S, 40° 30′ E
spoken in Kenya
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Large | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | High | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In both plosives and fricatives | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives and implosives | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/ and lateral obstruent | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | Simple tone system | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Clicks, pharyngeals, and 'th' | |
| Morphology | ||
| Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Double-object construction | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Words derived from Sinitic cha | |
