1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Chadic
  3. Genus: West Chadic

Tangale

WALS coordinates: 9° 45′ N, 11° 20′ E

spoken in Nigeria

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes 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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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None 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 MorphNeg Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages S[V-Neg]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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