1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Adamawa-Ubangi
  3. Genus: Ubangi

Gbaya Kara

WALS coordinates: 6° N, 15° E

spoken in Central African Republic, Cameroon

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gbaya
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Gbaya Kara 'Bodoe,
    • Gbaya Kaka,
    • Kaka
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle