Pero

WALS coordinates: 9° 35′ N, 11° E

spoken in Nigeria

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article Nominal Categories
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43A Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related by gender markers Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals One-th, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type 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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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 Noun-Adjective 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 Final 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 Mixed 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 NAdj Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Gap Complex Sentences
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123A Relativization on Obliques Gap Complex Sentences
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Both construction types exist Complex Sentences
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125A Purpose Clauses Deranked Complex Sentences
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126A 'When' Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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127A Reason Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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128A Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced Complex Sentences
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation NegVNeg 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 ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages ObligNeg Word Order
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144F Obligatory Double Negation in SVO languages SNegVONeg 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 OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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