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

Kana

WALS coordinates: 4° 45′ N, 7° 25′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality No nominal plural
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
      Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
      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 No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      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 Other
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
      Comparative Constructions Exceed
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
      Purpose Clauses Balanced/deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
      Lexicon
      Numeral Bases Pure vigesimal