1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Omotic
  3. Genus: North Omotic

Gamo

WALS coordinates: 6° 40′ 12.00″ N, 37° 15′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ometo
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Definite affix
      Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
      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 Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
      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 OV and RelN
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction