Qafar

WALS coordinates: 12° N, 42° E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	Two
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment	Semantic and formal
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality	All nouns, always obligatory
Definite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles	No definite or indefinite article
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes
Nominal Syntax
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction	Differentiation
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun	Relative clause-Noun
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun	OV and RelN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Indirect-object construction
Antipassive Constructions	No antipassive
Applicative Constructions	Benefactive object; both bases
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects	Subject is expressed overtly
Lexicon
Tea	Words derived from Sinitic cha