1. Family: Nilo-Saharan
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Sudanic
  3. Genus: Kuliak

So

WALS coordinates: 2° 35′ N, 34° 45′ E

spoken in Uganda

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • So
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Tepes,
    • Tepeth
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
    Person Marking on Adpositions Pronouns only
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
    Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    Epistemic Possibility Other
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    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
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    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
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Accusative
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Verbal Person Marking Only the A argument
    Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
    Order of Person Markers on the Verb A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Passive Constructions Present
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/Cat
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Possession Conjunctional
    Complex Sentences
    Relativization on Subjects Gap
    Lexicon
    Numeral Bases Decimal