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

Dizi

WALS coordinates: 6° 10′ N, 36° 30′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Dizi
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Average
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
      Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/
      Uvular Consonants None
      Glottalized Consonants Ejectives only
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Complex
      Tone Complex tone system
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking
      Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
      Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
      Nominal Categories
      Number of Genders Two
      Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
      Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
      Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Nominal Syntax
      Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
      Possessive Classification Two classes
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
      Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
      Passive Constructions Present
      Predicative Adjectives Mixed
      Nominal and Locational Predication Different
      Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
      Lexicon
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns