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

Mupun

WALS coordinates: 9° 30′ N, 8° 50′ E

spoken in Nigeria

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sura
Routledge:
  • Sura
Other:
  • Maghavul,
  • Sura,
  • Mwaghavul (Mupun)
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word Nominal Categories
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36A The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural 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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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for non-human reference Nominal Categories
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44A Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person Nominal Categories
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47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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48A Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Moderately differentiated in other ways 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 person number-neutral Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion Singular-plural pairs, no suppletion Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV 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 Noun-Demonstrative 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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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order 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 Not initial interrogative phrase 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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100A Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position Simple Clauses
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102A Verbal Person Marking Only the P argument Simple Clauses
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103A Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking No person marking Simple Clauses
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104A Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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107A Passive Constructions Absent Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative word, unclear if verb or particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Conjunctional Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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128A Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced/deranked Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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143C Optional Double Negation (Neg)VNeg 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 OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages OptNeg Word Order
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144G Optional Double Negation in SVO languages (Neg)SVONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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