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

Zayse

WALS coordinates: 5° 55′ N, 37° 20′ E

spoken in Ethiopia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Zayse
Routledge:
  • Zayse-Zergulla
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always obligatory
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative affix
    Polar Questions Absence of declarative morphemes