Language
Ewondo
Ewondo
Predicate Types
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
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| 1 | kàd | 'say' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(1)
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| 2 | kàŋ | 'believe' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(3)
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| 3 | mə̂m | 'admit' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(6)
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| 4 | sili | 'ask' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(3)
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| 5 | tə́lə | 'stop' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(2)
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| 6 | tsog | 'think' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(3)
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| 7 | yi | 'want' | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(4)
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Clause Types
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | c3-gerund | gerundive clause | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(7)
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| 2 | nâ Clause | nâ clause | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(12)
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| 3 | nə́ clause | nə́ clause | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(7)
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C Types
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
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| 1 | ai | COMP.with | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(2)
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| 2 | nâ | nâ | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(2)
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| 3 | nə́ | nə́ | Ewondo | Sections: Properties(2)
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Example Sentences
There are 587 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
| ewo |
Language name
| Ewondo, Alternative names: Ewundu, Jaunde, Yaounde, Yaunde |
Dialect/variety reported
| Cameroon (central, eastern, southern regions), |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo. Bantoid, Southern Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Ewondo-Fang (A.72) |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Onambele Manga Christophe |
Gender of consultant
| male |
Level of education
| Ph.D. |
Learned language at age
| From birth |
Familiarity with the language
| native speaker |
Who participated in the elicitation?
| Christophe Onambele and Ken Safir using the Clausal Complementation Questionnaire, Christophe Onambele and Sylvester Ron Simango using the Tense and aspect Questionnaire and Christophe Onambele and Vicki Carstens using the Situating the Subject in Bantu 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 | |
| Comments | Many analytic entities have not been filled in for the CC Portal. No analytic entities are filled in for the Anaphora Portal. |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |