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Family:
Niger-Congo
/
Subfamily: Benue-Congo
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Genus:
Bantu
Language Yao (in Malawi)
WALS code: yao
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Value
Feature
Reference
Area
69A
Tense-aspect prefixes
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
Whiteley 1966
: 36
Verbal Categories
81A
SVO
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
Whiteley 1966
: 108
Word Order
82A
No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb
Whiteley 1966
: 108
Word Order
83A
VO
Order of Object and Verb
Whiteley 1966
: 108
Word Order
87A
Noun-Adjective
Order of Adjective and Noun
Whiteley 1966
: 88
Word Order
88A
Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Whiteley 1966
: 89
Word Order
97A
VO and NAdj
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
Word Order
101A
Subject affixes on verb
Expression of Pronominal Subjects
Whiteley 1966
: 56
Simple Clauses
112A
Negative affix
Negative Morphemes
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Simple Clauses
143A
[Neg-V]
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
143E
[Neg-V]
Preverbal Negative Morphemes
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
143F
None
Postverbal Negative Morphemes
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
143G
None
Minor morphological means of signaling negation
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144A
MorphNeg
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144D
S[Neg-V]O
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144H
No NegSVO
NegSVO Order
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144I
Prefix&NoDoubleNeg
SNegVO Order
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144J
No SVNegO
SVNegO Order
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
144K
No SVONeg
SVONeg Order
Whiteley 1966
: 55, 58, 59
Word Order
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Glottocode:
yaoo1241
ISO 639-3:
yao
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Coordinates
WGS84
14°30'S, 35°30'E
-14.50, 35.50
Spoken in:
Malawi
,
Mozambique
Alternative names
Ethnologue:
Yao
Routledge:
Yao
Ruhlen:
Yao
Sources
Whiteley 1966
A Study of Yao Sentences
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