1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Central Sudanic
  3. Genus: Bongo-Bagirmi

Kara (in Central African Republic)

WALS coordinates: 10° N, 23° E

spoken in Central African Republic

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kara
Routledge:
  • Fer
Other:
  • Fer,
  • Kara (in Central African Rep)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
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 Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
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 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
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle