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KML
Family:
Nilo-Saharan
Subfamily: Central Sudanic
Genus:
Bongo-Bagirmi
Yulu
WALS coordinates: 8° 30′ N, 25° 15′ E
spoken in
Sudan
Alternative Names
Ethnologue:
Yulu
Ruhlen:
Yulu
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:
yul
Features
Feature
Value
References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories
Large
Vowel Quality Inventories
Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
In both plosives and fricatives
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants
None
Glottalized Consonants
Implosives only
Lateral Consonants
/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels
None
Syllable Structure
Moderately complex
Tone
Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants
All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
Labial-velars
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality
Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes
No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
Mixed type
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 Adposition and Noun Phrase
Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun
Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun
Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles
Final
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions
Question particle