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

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural clitic
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive 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 No dominant order
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      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
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Mixed
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Question particle