Af-Soomaali, Af-Maxaad Tiri, Common Somali, Standard Somali
Family/Group
Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic
Area
Africa
General Data
spoken in Somalia (official language), Djibouti, Ethiopia, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Yemen
Typological Information
• SOV
• inflecting
Reduplication Form-Function
• full: pluralization
• partial (with and without fixed segmentism): pluralization
Relationship Form-Function
various forms - one function
Reduplication System
• (fixed segment reduplication for) pluralization of masculine monosyllabic nouns (Ulrike Claudi, personal communication)
• partial (first syllable) reduplication in adjectives as attributes of pluralized nouns (Ulrike Claudi, personal communication)
Comments
the insertion of the Somali data has highly profited from personal communication with Ulrike Claudi (University of Cologne)
Terminology