Duka

WALS coordinates: 11° 10′ N, 5° 5′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles	No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX
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	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Mixed
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 particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Asymmetric
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/NonReal and A/Cat
Polar Questions	Question particle