1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Omotic
  3. Genus: South Omotic

Dime

WALS coordinates: 6° 10′ N, 36° 15′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Dime
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Dima
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology