1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Genus: Eastern Saharan

Kanembu

WALS coordinates: 14° N, 15° E

spoken in Nigeria, Chad, Niger

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kanembu
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Káidi-Kanembú,
    • Kaidi-Kanembu,
    • Kanembu
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    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 SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive