1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Subfamily: Omotic
  3. Genus: North Omotic

Wolaytta

WALS coordinates: 6° 50′ N, 37° 45′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ometo
Routledge:
  • Wolaitta
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
    Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
    Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking
    The Past Tense No past tense
    The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
    The Perfect No perfect
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
    Verbal Number and Suppletion None
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology