Kinyarwanda

WALS coordinates: 2° S, 30° E

spoken in Rwanda

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Rwanda
Routledge:
  • Rwanda
Other:
  • Rwanda,
  • Ruanda
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Differentiated Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases No morphological case-marking Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking No case-marking Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal 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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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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110A Periphrastic Causative Constructions Both Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Gap Complex Sentences
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138A Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 MorphNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages S[Neg-V]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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