Family: Niger-Congo
Subfamily: Benue-Congo
Genus: Bantoid

Nyamwezi

WALS coordinates: 5° S, 33° E

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Nyamwezi
Ruhlen:	Nyamwezi
Routledge:
Other:	Nyamwezi, Kinyamwezi
ISO 639-3:	nym

Features

ID	Feature	Value	Area
26A	Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strong prefixing	Morphology	comment
30A	Number of Genders	Five or more	Nominal Categories	comment
31A	Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	Non-sex-based	Nominal Categories	comment
32A	Systems of Gender Assignment	Semantic and formal	Nominal Categories	comment
33A	Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural prefix	Nominal Categories	comment
37A	Definite Articles	Demonstrative word used as definite article	Nominal Categories	comment
38A	Indefinite Articles	Indefinite word same as 'one'	Nominal Categories	comment
53A	Ordinal Numerals	First, two-th, three-th	Nominal Categories	comment
57A	Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes	Nominal Categories	comment
69A	Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type	Verbal Categories	comment
81A	Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
82A	Order of Subject and Verb	No dominant order	Word Order	comment
83A	Order of Object and Verb	VO	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	Noun-Demonstrative	Word Order	comment
89A	Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral	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
101A	Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb	Simple Clauses	comment
110A	Periphrastic Causative Constructions	Purposive but no sequential	Simple Clauses	comment
111A	Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound	Simple Clauses	comment
112A	Negative Morphemes	Negative affix	Simple Clauses	comment
129A	Hand and Arm	Identical	Lexicon	comment examples
130A	Finger and Hand	Different	Lexicon	comment examples
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