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

Sotho (Northern)

WALS coordinates: 24° S, 29° E

spoken in South Africa

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Sotho (Northern)
Routledge:
  • Sotho (North)
Other:
  • Northern Sotho
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix 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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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO 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 VO Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Exceed Simple Clauses
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122A Relativization on Subjects Gap Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Neg[V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] 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 ObligDoubleNeg 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 Immed preverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages ObligNeg Word Order
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144F Obligatory Double Negation in SVO languages SNeg[V-Neg]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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