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

Fula (Cameroonian)

WALS coordinates: 9° 10′ N, 13° 30′ E

spoken in Cameroon

Alternative Names

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

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
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 Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha
Other
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings