Pa'a

WALS coordinates: 11° N, 9° 15′ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pa'a
Routledge:
Other:
  • Paanci,
  • Pa'anci
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one' Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive 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 SVO 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 VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions 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 Adjective-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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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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143C Optional Double Negation (Neg)VNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg 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 OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb End, not immed postverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages OptNeg Word Order
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144G Optional Double Negation in SVO languages S(Neg)VONeg Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order OptDoubleNeg Word Order
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