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KML
Family:
Nilo-Saharan
Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
Genus:
Surmic
Didinga
WALS coordinates: 4° 30′ N, 33° 30′ E
spoken in
Sudan
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Didinga
Ruhlen:
Routledge:
Other:
Xaroxa
,
Toi
ISO 639-3:
did
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