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

Didinga

WALS coordinates: 4° 30′ N, 33° 30′ E

spoken in Sudan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
      Other:
      • Xaroxa,
      • Toi
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
      The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
      The Future Tense No inflectional future
      The Perfect No perfect
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
      Lexicon
      Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
      Number of Basic Colour Categories 7-7.5
      Green and Blue Green/blue
      Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow