1. Family: Niger-Congo
  2. Subfamily: Benue-Congo
  3. Genus: Bantoid

Yao (in Malawi)

WALS coordinates: 14° 30′ S, 35° 30′ E

spoken in Malawi, Mozambique

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yao
Routledge:
  • Yao
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal 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 No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None 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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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages S[Neg-V]O Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order No NegSVO Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order Prefix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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