Katla

WALS coordinates: 11° 50′ N, 29° 20′ E

spoken in Sudan

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural prefix
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
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
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause
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
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3rd person forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A precedes P
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible