Language
Bafut
Bafut
Anaphoric markers
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bɨ́ɨ́nú + POSS | 'trunk of body' noun + possessive pronoun | Bafut | Details |
| 2 | nʊ̂ | 'body' (bare stem noun) | Bafut | Details |
| 3 | nʊ̂ + POSS | 'body' (bare stem noun) + possessive pronoun | Bafut | Details |
| 4 | PRN | independent pronoun (personal or possessive) | Bafut | Details |
| 5 | PRN + PRN.OBL-mbɔ̂ŋ | pronoun (personal or possessive) followed by an "owner" noun, sort of parallel to English "I praise me my-self". | Bafut | Details |
| 6 | PRN.OBL logophor | oblique case of personal pronouns used logophorically | Bafut | Details |
| 7 | PRN.OBL+PRN.OBL-mbɔ̂ŋ logophor | oblique case of personal pronouns followed by an "owner" noun used logophorically | Bafut | Details |
| 8 | RCM | -nə́ suffix attaching to a verb | Bafut | Details |
| 9 | RCM + PRN | -nə́ suffix followed by a personal pronoun | Bafut | Details |
| 10 | RCM + PRN + PRN.OBL-mbɔ̂ŋ | -nə́ suffix followed by a personal pronoun followed by an "owner" noun | Bafut | Details |
Predicate Types
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Clause Types
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C Types
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Example Sentences
There are 660 example sentences.
Language Properties
Some syntactic properties of the language
Word order
| Consistently SVO |
General information about the language
ISO code (ISO 639-3), aka Ethnologue code
| bfd |
Language name
| Bafut |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Wide Grassfields, Narrow Grassfields, Mbam-Nkam, Ngemba | |
| Comments | (I copied and pasted in the underlined _Classification_ field from Ethnologue) |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo | |
| Comments | (This is a list of the top values in Ethnologue, so you can have it both ways. If you prefer you could change it into a list of the major families, etc.) |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Pius N. Tamanji |
Gender of consultant
| male |
Occupation
| associate professor of African languages and linguistics at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon |
Level of education
| Post Ph.D. |
Language biography
| a. Languages spoken at home by parents: Bafut
b. Languages spoken by parents natively: Bafut c. Languages of instruction in school: English and later French d. Age when first learned the subject language: Since birth e. Identifiable sub-dialect: None f. Other dialects of the same language: None |
Learned language at age
| mother tongue |
Familiarity with the language
| native speaker |
Formal knowledge of the grammar
| specialized knowledge, e.g., as language teacher or linguist |
Who participated in the elicitation?
| Pius N. Tamanji and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire. |
Status of data in database
Is the information for the sentences entered complete?
| Data for entered sentences is complete |
Is the data for markers in this language complete?
| Data for markers incomplete |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |