Qafar

WALS coordinates: 12° N, 42° E

spoken in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
30A Number of Genders Two Nominal Categories
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31A Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based Nominal Categories
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32A Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic and formal Nominal Categories
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34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory 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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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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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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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant 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 RelN Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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108A Antipassive Constructions No antipassive Simple Clauses
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108B Productivity of the Antipassive Construction no antipassive Simple Clauses
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109A Applicative Constructions Benefactive object; both bases Simple Clauses
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109B Other Roles of Applied Objects No other roles (= Only benefactive) Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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138A Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha Lexicon
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