Venda
WALS coordinates: 22° S, 30° E
spoken in South Africa, Zimbabwe
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related by gender markers | |
| Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns | Differentiated | |
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect prefixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | VO and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Subject affixes on verb | |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative affix | |
| Complex Sentences | ||
| Relativization on Subjects | Gap | |
