1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Atlantic
  3. Genus: Northern Atlantic

Fula (Nigerian)

WALS coordinates: 8° 10′ 12.00″ N, 10° 30′ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Fula,
  • Fulani
Routledge:
  • Ful(ani)
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Number of Cases No morphological case-marking
    Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking
    Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Two classes
    Action Nominal Constructions Restricted
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    Situational Possibility Affixes on verbs
    Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs
    Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for either possibility or necessity
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    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
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No zero realization
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb P precedes A
    Passive Constructions Present
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Predicative Possession Topic
    Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Complex Sentences
    Purpose Clauses Deranked
    'When' Clauses Balanced/deranked
    Reason Clauses Balanced
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns