Volume 21. Mande languages
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Main country: Ghana (show on the map)
Map designer: Yuri Koryakov
[A‑1] | Number of degrees of vowel height | Four [A‑1‑3] | ||
[A‑2] | Vowel height degrees | Close, close-mid, open-mid and open [A‑2‑5] | ||
[A‑3] | Degrees of vowel backness | Front, central and back [A‑3‑4] | ||
[A‑4] | Number of length degrees | No length degrees [A‑4‑1] | ||
[A‑5] | Vowel opposition in labialization | No vowel opposition in labialization [A‑5‑1] | ||
[A‑6] | Vowel opposition in nasalization | Present for front, central and back vowels [A‑6‑4] | ||
[A‑7] | Vowel opposition in pharyngealization | No vowel opposition in pharyngealization [A‑7‑1] | ||
[A‑8] | Vowel opposition in ATR | No vowel opposition in ATR [A‑8‑1] | ||
[A‑11] | Inventory of obstruents by laryngeal features | Opposition by presence and absence of voice [A‑11‑1] | ||
[A‑12] | Inventory of obstruents by manner of articulation | Plosives and fricatives [A‑12‑1] | ||
[A‑13] | Inventory of obstruents by place of articulation | Labial, coronal, dorsal, guttural and postuvular [A‑13‑2] | ||
[A‑14] | Inventory of labial obstruents by place of articulation | Only bilabial [A‑14‑1] | ||
[A‑15] | Inventory of coronal obstruents by place of articulation | Dental [A‑15‑1] | ||
[A‑16] | Inventory of guttural obstruents by place of articulation | Velar and labiovelar [A‑16‑4] | ||
[A‑17] | Inventory of postuvular obstruents by place of articulation | Only glottal [A‑17‑2] | ||
[A‑18] | Additional articulatory oppositions of obstruents | By labialization [A‑18‑2] | ||
[A‑19] | Inventory of sonorants by manner of articulation | Nasal, liquid, vibrant and glide [A‑19‑6] | ||
[A‑20] | Inventory of sonorants by place of articulation | Labial, coronal, dorsal and guttural [A‑20‑17] | ||
[A‑21] | Additional articulatory oppositions of sonorants | Absent [A‑21‑1] |
[B‑1] | Stress character | No stress [B‑1‑1] | ||
[B‑6] | Number of tone levels | Three [B‑6‑2] | ||
[B‑8] | Tone carrier | Syllable [B‑8‑1] | ||
[B‑9] | Length character | Phonological [B‑9‑1] |
[C‑1] | Syllable onset | Most syllables have a non-null onset [C‑1‑3] | ||
[C‑2] | Syllable coda | Most syllables have a null coda [C‑2‑4] |
[D‑1] | Restrictions on the phonemic structure of segment morphemes in the initial position | No consonant clusters [D‑1‑6] | ||
[D‑5] | Differences between native and borrowed words | Differences in syllable structure [D‑5‑4] | ||
[D‑6] | Differences between roots and affixes | No differences [D‑6‑1] |
[E‑1] | Type of language by type of morpheme combination in a word | Agglutinative with some fusional features [E‑1‑2] | ||
[E‑2] | Fusional type features | Phonetically unconditioned fusion [E‑2‑4] | ||
[E‑4] | Type of language by degree of morpheme cohesion | Analytic [E‑4‑2] |
[F‑1] | Number of agreement classes | No agreement classes [F‑1‑1] | ||
[F‑6] | Agreement of cardinal numerals in gender | Absent [F‑6‑1] | ||
[F‑7] | Nouns classifying categories | Absent [F‑7‑1] |
[G‑1] | Number in nouns | Singular and plural [G‑1‑1] | ||
[G‑2] | Single number marking | Unmarked [G‑2‑2] | ||
[G‑3] | Honorific forms in pronouns and verbs | Absent [G‑3‑1] | ||
[G‑4] | Agreement in number | No agreement in number [G‑4‑1] |
[H‑3] | Case of nominal predicate | Nominative [H‑3‑4] | ||
[H‑5] | Other means of expressing possessive relations | Possessive particles [H‑5‑2] | ||
[H‑8] | Case marking of animate and inanimate nouns | Same [H‑8‑1] | ||
[H‑9] | Secondary cases | Absent [H‑9‑2] |
[I‑1] | Voice forms expression | Category of voice is absent [I‑1‑1] |
[J‑3] | Function words expressing spatial orientation of action | Postpositions [J‑3‑2] | ||
[J‑5] | Morphological expression of (in)definiteness | Noun affixes [J‑5‑2] | ||
[J‑6] | Words expressing (in)definiteness | Articles [J‑6‑1] | ||
[J‑8] | Expression of negation | Negative particles [J‑8‑3] | ||
[J‑9] | Negation marker position | Postposition [J‑9‑4] |
[K‑1] | Personal pronouns inflection | Pronouns are not inflected [K‑1‑1] | ||
[K‑2] | Article types | Only definite [K‑2‑3] | ||
[K‑4] | Article place | Postposition [K‑4‑2] | ||
[K‑5] | Position of article in noun phrase | Single article preceding the phrase [K‑5‑1] | ||
[K‑6] | Grammar categories of article | Definiteness [K‑6‑2] | ||
[K‑7] | Number of conjugation types | Single type of conjugation [K‑7‑1] | ||
[K‑8] | Verb agreement types | No verb agreement [K‑8‑1] | ||
[K‑9] | Agreement categories expressed in participle | Absent [K‑9‑1] | ||
[K‑11] | Adverb grammar categories | Absent [K‑11‑1] | ||
[K‑12] | Agreement categories expressed in adjective | Absent [K‑12‑1] | ||
[K‑13] | Cumulative expression of several categories in adjective | Absent [K‑13‑1] | ||
[K‑14] | Attribute agreement of adjectives | Absent [K‑14‑2] | ||
[K‑15] | Attributive agreement types | No attributive agreement [K‑15‑1] | ||
[K‑16] | Inflectional categories of noun | (In)definiteness [K‑16‑3] | ||
[K‑17] | Cumulative expression of several categories in noun | Absent [K‑17‑1] | ||
[K‑18] | Inflection means | Reduplication and affixes [K‑18‑6] | ||
[K‑19] | Word form model | Mainly or only suffixal [K‑19‑4] |
[L‑1] | Word formation means | Derivation, reduplication and compounding [L‑1‑19] | ||
[L‑2] | Derivation affixes | Suffixes [L‑2‑2] | ||
[L‑3] | Stems relations in stem compounding | Apposition and subordination [L‑3‑5] |
[M‑2] | Word order fixedness | Fixed [M‑2‑1] | ||
[M‑3] | Dominant word order | SOV [M‑3‑2] | ||
[M‑4] | Order of nouns and its modifier | Modifier follows noun [M‑4‑2] |
[N‑1] | Clauses order in compound sentence | Not fixed [N‑1‑3] | ||
[N‑4] | Compound sentence types | Subordination and compounding [N‑4‑4] | ||
[N‑5] | Compound sentence syndesis and asyndeton | Both syndesis and asyndeton possible [N‑5‑3] |