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

Miya

WALS coordinates: 10° 55′ 12.00″ N, 9° 40′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Miya
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      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 All nouns, always obligatory
      Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      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 Mixed
      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
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
      Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
      Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
      Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
      Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      Relativization on Subjects Gap
      Relativization on Obliques Pronoun-retention
      'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced