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

Wolaytta

WALS coordinates: 6° 50′ N, 37° 45′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ometo
Routledge:
  • Wolaitta
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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41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes Nominal Categories
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense No past tense Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense Inflectional future exists Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect No perfect Verbal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion None 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 Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology 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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