Miya

WALS coordinates: 10° 55′ N, 9° 40′ E

spoken in Nigeria

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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30A Number of Genders Two Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal Nominal Categories
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one' Nominal Categories
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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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81B Languages with two Dominant Orders of Subject, Object, and Verb SVO or VOS Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Mixed Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject pronouns in different position Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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113A Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both Simple Clauses
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114A Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Gap Complex Sentences
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123A Relativization on Obliques Pronoun-retention Complex Sentences
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist Complex Sentences
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125A Purpose Clauses Deranked Complex Sentences
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126A 'When' Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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127A Reason Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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128A Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Type 1 / Type 9 Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages ObligNeg Word Order
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144F Obligatory Double Negation in SVO languages SNegVONeg/SVNegONeg/NegVOSNeg/VNegOSNeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144U Double negation in verb-initial languages NegVOSNeg/VNegOSNeg/SNegVONeg/SVNegONeg Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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