1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Nilotic

Karimojong

WALS coordinates: 3° N, 34° 10′ E

spoken in Uganda

Alternative Names

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

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
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
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
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
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle
Complex Sentences
Purpose Clauses Balanced/deranked
'When' Clauses Balanced/deranked
Reason Clauses Balanced/deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced