1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Mande
  3. Genus: Eastern Mande

Mano

WALS coordinates: 7° N, 9° W

spoken in Guinea, Liberia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mano
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Mawe,
    • Maa
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
    The Past Tense No past tense
    The Future Tense No inflectional future
    The Perfect Other perfect
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Minimal system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    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 OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only