1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Chadic
  3. Genus: East Chadic

Lele

WALS coordinates: 9° 4′ 48.00″ N, 15° 34′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Chad

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Lele
Routledge:
  • Lele (Chad)
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Number of Genders Two
    Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
    Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person
    Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
    Person Marking on Adpositions No person marking
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Action Nominal Constructions Mixed
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    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 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
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
    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 Both orders of A and P occur
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    Relativization on Subjects Gap
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit
    Lexicon
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 4
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 3-4
    Green and Blue Yellow/green/blue
    Red and Yellow Yellow/green/blue vs. red