Tirmaga

WALS coordinates: 5° 45′ N, 35° 15′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Suri
Routledge:
  • Tirma
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix 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 Possessive suffixes Nominal 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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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative before and after Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation Type 2 / Type 4 Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV&[Neg-V] 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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144C Languages with different word order in negative clauses SVO, but SONeg[V-Neg]/SO[Neg-V-Neg] Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144N Obligatory Double Negation in SOV languages SVO but SONeg[V-Neg]/SO[Neg-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 Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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