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

Ila

WALS coordinates: 15° 34′ 48.00″ S, 26° 30′ E

spoken in Zambia, Zimbabwe

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ila
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related by gender markers
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
      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 Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      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 Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
      Negative Morphemes Negative affix