Maninka (Western)

WALS coordinates: 13° N, 11° W

spoken in Mali

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Ordinal Numerals	First/one-th, two-th, three-th
Verbal Categories
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect	None
Verbal Number and Suppletion	None
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
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 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	Final 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 Relative Clause and Noun	OV and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions	Question particle
Predicative Adjectives	Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication	Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Impossible
Comparative Constructions	Locational