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

Gimira

WALS coordinates: 7° N, 35° 45′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Bencho
Routledge:
  • Bench
Other:
  • Dizu,
  • Bencho
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Number of Cases 6-7 cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes Postpositional 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 SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
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 Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
Negative Morphemes Negative affix
Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses Deranked
'When' Clauses Deranked
Reason Clauses Deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced