M in First Person Singular
Vocabulary · one world map for each value
WALS codes 230 languages for this feature. The most frequent value, “No m in first person singular”, covers 177 of them (77%); the least frequent, “m in first person singular”, covers 53.
That value is most frequent in Australia (100% of the 22 languages coded there) and least frequent in Eurasia (51% of 49).
All 10 Austronesian languages coded have “No m in first person singular”.
Trans-New Guinea is the most divided, its largest group reaching only 8 of 14.
No m in first person singular177 languages · 77%
m in first person singular53 languages · 23%
One map per value; each dot is a language WALS codes with that value.
By macro-area
| Value | Africa | Eurasia | Papunesia | Australia | North America | South America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No m in first person singular | 19 | 25 | 30 | 22 | 59 | 22 |
| m in first person singular | 12 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| All values | 31 | 49 | 39 | 22 | 62 | 27 |
Inside the largest families
| Family | Coded | Most frequent value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trans-New Guinea | 14 | No m in first person singular | 57% |
| Austronesian | 10 | No m in first person singular | 100% |
| Indo-European | 10 | m in first person singular | 100% |
| Niger-Congo | 10 | m in first person singular | 90% |
| Pama-Nyungan | 9 | No m in first person singular | 100% |
| Afro-Asiatic | 8 | No m in first person singular | 100% |
| Hokan | 8 | No m in first person singular | 100% |
Languages to explore
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