1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Ndebele (in South Africa)

WALS coordinates: 25° 19′ 48.00″ S, 29° E

spoken in South Africa

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Ndebele
    Other:
    • Ndebele (South Africa)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strong prefixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
    Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
    Indefinite Pronouns Generic-noun-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    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 Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    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 affixes on verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Double negation
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit