1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Luganda

WALS coordinates: 0° 30′ N, 32° 10′ E

spoken in Uganda

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Luganda
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Ganda
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural
    Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Two classes
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
    The Past Tense Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions
    The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
    The Perfect Other perfect
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    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
    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 Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Predicative Possession Conjunctional
    Predicative Adjectives Mixed
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha