Hamer

WALS coordinates: 5° N, 36° 30′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants	Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants	Ejectives and implosives
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	Simple tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No adpositions
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative	No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive	Special imperative + special negative
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Neutral
Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Present
Predicative Adjectives	Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible