Jeli
WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ N, 5° 40′ 12.00″ W
spoken in Côte d'Ivoire
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively isolating | |
| Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | No case | |
| Locus of Marking in the Clause | No marking | |
| Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Dependent marking | |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Inconsistent or other | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Plural clitic | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | |
| Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation | Predicate negation also present | |
| Complex Sentences | ||
| 'Want' Complement Subjects | Subject is expressed overtly | |
