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

Jarawa (in Nigeria)

WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ N, 10° 30′ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Jarawa
    Other:
    • Jaranchi
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
    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
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    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
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle