1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Adamawa-Ubangi
  3. Genus: Ubangi

Linda

WALS coordinates: 6° 30′ N, 20° 45′ E

spoken in Central African Republic

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Linda
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Banda-Linda,
    • Banda Linda
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Nominal Syntax
    Action Nominal Constructions Possessive-Accusative
    Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' identical to 'with'
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect tone
    The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    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 Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    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 AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Possession Conjunctional
    Predicative Adjectives Mixed
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible
    Comparative Constructions Exceed
    Complex Sentences
    Purpose Clauses Balanced
    'When' Clauses Balanced
    Reason Clauses Balanced
    Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced