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

Tama

WALS coordinates: 14° 30′ N, 22° E

spoken in Chad, Sudan

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tama
Routledge:
Other:
  • Tamok
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Implosives only Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants Pharyngeals Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes 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 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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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective 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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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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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SO[V-Neg] Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order No SONegV Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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