Oromo (Waata)

WALS coordinates: 3° 20′ S, 39° 50′ E

spoken in Kenya

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Oromo
Routledge:
Other:
  • Waata,
  • Waata Oromo
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal 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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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OXV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions 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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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions 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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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Neg[V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV 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 ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144N Obligatory Double Negation in SOV languages SOV & Neg[V-Neg] Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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