Grebo

WALS coordinates: 5° N, 8° W

spoken in Liberia

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Grebo
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal Phonology
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10A Vowel Nasalization Contrast present Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Simple Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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14A Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Not predictable Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Lexical stress Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants Labial-velars Phonology
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20A Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative Morphology
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21A Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives No case Morphology
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21B Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection monoexponential TAM Morphology
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22A Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb 6-7 categories per word Morphology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Dependent marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Dependent-marking Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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28A Case Syncretism No case marking Morphology
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29A Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic Morphology
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30A Number of Genders Three Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Non-sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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35A Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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39A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns No inclusive/exclusive Nominal Categories
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40A Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection No person marking Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related by gender markers Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person only, but also non-singular Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases No morphological case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification No possessive classification Nominal Syntax
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect Other perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Minimal system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion None Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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98A Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Neutral Simple Clauses
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99A Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns Nominative - accusative (standard) Simple Clauses
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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Neutral Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking No person marking Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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106A Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Present Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions Benefactive and other; both bases Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects Instrument Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Asymmetric Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/NonReal and A/Cat Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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125A Purpose Clauses Deranked Complex Sentences
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126A 'When' Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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136A M-T Pronouns M-T pronouns, paradigmatic Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns N-M pronouns, non-paradigmatic Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular m in second person singular Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SNegOV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Preverbal, not beginning or immed Word Order
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144C Languages with different word order in negative clauses SVO, but SNegOV Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SVO but SNegOV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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