1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Central Sudanic
  3. Genus: Lendu

Lendu

WALS coordinates: 2° N, 30° 30′ E

spoken in Democratic Republic of Congo

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Balendru
Routledge:
  • Bale
Other:
  • Lendu (North),
  • N Lendu,
  • North Lendu,
  • N. Lendu,
  • Baledha
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
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 No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
Position of Polar Question Particles Second position
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Final subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Question particle