Family: Nilo-Saharan
Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
Genus: Nilotic

Nandi

WALS coordinates: 0° 15′ N, 35° E

spoken in Kenya

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Kalenjin
Ruhlen:	Nandi
Routledge:
Other:	Kalenjin
ISO 639-3:	kln (article in Wikipedia)

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Small	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Low	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Moderately complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	Simple tone system	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
20A	Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Tonal/concatenative	Morphology	comment
21A	Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives	Monoexponential case	Morphology	comment
21B	Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection	monoexponential TAM	Morphology	comment
22A	Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb	4-5 categories per word	Morphology	comment
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Equal prefixing and suffixing	Morphology	comment
27A	Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication	Morphology	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix	Nominal Categories	comment
37A	Definite Articles	Definite affix	Nominal Categories	comment
41A	Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast	Nominal Categories	comment examples
42A	Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Different stem	Nominal Categories	comment examples
44A	Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions	Nominal Categories	comment
48A	Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking	Nominal Categories	comment
51A	Position of Case Affixes	Case tone	Nominal Categories	comment examples
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	Nominal Categories	comment examples
53A	Ordinal Numerals	First, two-th, three-th	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive suffixes	Nominal Categories	comment
58A	Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent	Nominal Syntax	comment
58B	Number of Possessive Nouns	None reported	Nominal Syntax	comment
59A	Possessive Classification	No possessive classification	Nominal Syntax	comment
60A	Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses	Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed	Nominal Syntax	comment
61A	Adjectives without Nouns	Marked by preceding word	Nominal Syntax	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type	Verbal Categories	comment
70A	The Morphological Imperative	Second singular and second plural	Verbal Categories	comment
72A	Imperative-Hortative Systems	Maximal system	Verbal Categories	comment
73A	The Optative	Inflectional optative absent	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	VSO	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	VS	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	VO	Word Order	comment
84A	Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	VOX	Word Order	comment
85A	Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions	Word Order	comment
86A	Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive	Word Order	comment
87A	Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective	Word Order	comment
88A	Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative suffix	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral	Word Order	comment
90A	Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Noun-Relative clause	Word Order	comment
90C	Postnominal relative clauses	Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant	Word Order	comment
92A	Position of Polar Question Particles	Final	Word Order	comment
93A	Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase	Word Order	comment
94A	Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word	Word Order	comment
95A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions	Word Order	comment
96A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	VO and NRel	Word Order	comment
97A	Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj	Word Order	comment
100A	Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative	Simple Clauses	comment
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
102A	Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments	Simple Clauses	comment
103A	Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	Zero in all 3rd person forms	Simple Clauses	comment
104A	Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A precedes P	Simple Clauses	comment
107A	Passive Constructions	Absent	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative affix	Simple Clauses	comment
116A	Polar Questions	Question particle	Simple Clauses	comment
121A	Comparative Constructions	Exceed	Simple Clauses	comment
122A	Relativization on Subjects	Gap	Complex Sentences	comment
128A	Utterance Complement Clauses	Balanced	Complex Sentences	comment
143A	Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb	[Neg-V]	Word Order	comment
143E	Preverbal Negative Morphemes	[Neg-V]	Word Order	comment
143F	Postverbal Negative Morphemes	None	Word Order	comment
143G	Minor morphological means of signaling negation	None	Word Order	comment
144A	Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb	MorphNeg	Word Order	comment
144T	The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages	[Neg-V]SO	Word Order	comment
144V	Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative	Prefix, no double negation Prefix&NoDoubleNeg	Word Order	comment
144W	Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object	None	Word Order	comment
144X	Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative	No clause-final neg	Word Order	comment