/Xam
WALS coordinates: 31° S, 21° E
spoken in South Africa
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Comitatives and Instrumentals | Identity | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Absent | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | VOX | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | |
| 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 | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Double-object construction | |
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | |
