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

Kenga

WALS coordinates: 12° N, 18° E

spoken in Chad

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SVONeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages SVONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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