1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Genus: Dogon

Dogon

WALS coordinates: 14° 20′ N, 3° 30′ W

spoken in Burkina Faso, Mali

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Dogon
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Donno So Dogon,
    • Dogoso
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
    The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Nominal Syntax
    Action Nominal Constructions Restricted
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    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 Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    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 Internally headed
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
    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 Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    Numeral Bases Other base