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

Herero

WALS coordinates: 20° 35′ S, 19° E

spoken in Namibia, Botswana

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Herero
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Ochiherero,
    • Otjiherero
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent