1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Chadic
  3. Genus: West Chadic

Pero

WALS coordinates: 9° 34′ 48.00″ N, 11° E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pero
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory
      Definite Articles Definite affix
      Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related by gender markers
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction
      Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
      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 Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Final
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
      Simple Clauses
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Complex Sentences
      Relativization on Subjects Gap
      Relativization on Obliques Gap
      'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist
      Purpose Clauses Deranked
      'When' Clauses Balanced
      Reason Clauses Balanced
      Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Identical
      Finger and Hand Different