1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Sangu

WALS coordinates: 1° 30′ S, 11° 49′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Gabon

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sangu
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Isangu
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Categories
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix