1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Duala

WALS coordinates: 4° N, 9° 25′ E

spoken in Cameroon

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Duala
Routledge:
Other:
  • Douala
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with' Nominal Syntax
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Conjunctional Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Mixed Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Exceed Simple Clauses
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138A Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SNegVO Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages SNegVO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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