Kadugli

WALS coordinates: 11° N, 29° 40′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Sudan

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Average
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
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	None
Glottalized Consonants	Implosives only
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural prefix
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
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 Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative