1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Chadic
  3. Genus: Biu-Mandara

Hdi

WALS coordinates: 11° 52′ 12.00″ N, 13° 43′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Xedi
    Other:
    • Hedi,
    • Xdi
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction