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KML
Family:
Nilo-Saharan
Genus:
Koman
Komo
WALS coordinates: 8° 45′ N, 33° 45′ E
spoken in
Ethiopia
,
Sudan
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Komo
Ruhlen:
Komo
Routledge:
Other:
Koma
ISO 639-3:
xom
Features
Feature
Value
References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories
Average
Vowel Quality Inventories
Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants
None
Glottalized Consonants
Ejectives and implosives
Lateral Consonants
/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels
None
Syllable Structure
Moderately complex
Tone
Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants
All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural prefix
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
3rd person singular only
Person Marking on Adpositions
No person marking
Position of Case Affixes
No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
SVO
Order of Subject and Verb
SV
Order of Object and Verb
VO
Order of Genitive and Noun
Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Noun-Demonstrative
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
Accusative
Verbal Person Marking
Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb
A precedes P
Passive Constructions
Absent
Negative Morphemes
Negative auxiliary verb