Mamvu
WALS coordinates: 3° 15′ N, 29° E
spoken in Democratic Republic of Congo
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Morphology | ||
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Weakly prefixing | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Coding of Nominal Plurality | Mixed morphological plural | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive prefixes | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' identical to 'with' | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | No tense-aspect inflection | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | No dominant order | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Noun-Demonstrative | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | VO and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | |
| Predicative Possession | Conjunctional | |
