1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Hemba

WALS coordinates: 6° 15′ S, 27° 10′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Democratic Republic of Congo

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Hemba
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Eastern Luba,
    • Kiluba-Hemba
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj