1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Mande
  3. Genus: Western Mande

Soninke

WALS coordinates: 15° N, 10° 30′ W

spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Minimal system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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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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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective 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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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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138A Tea Others Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 SNegOV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Preverbal, not beginning or immed Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SNegOV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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