1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Nubian

Nubian (Kunuz)

WALS coordinates: 23° N, 33° E

spoken in Egypt

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Dongolawi
Routledge:
  • Dongolawi
Other:
  • Nubian (Aswan),
  • Kunuz Nubian
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
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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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV 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 OV Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun 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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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Subordinating suffix Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] 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 MorphNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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