M in Second Person Singular
Vocabulary · one world map for each value
WALS codes 230 languages for this feature. The most frequent value, “No m in second person singular”, covers 152 of them (66%); the least frequent, “m in second person singular”, covers 78.
That value is most frequent in Australia (100% of the 22 languages coded there) and least frequent in North America (44% of 62).
All 10 Indo-European languages coded have “No m in second person singular”.
Austronesian is the most divided, its largest group reaching only 5 of 10.
No m in second person singular152 languages · 66%
m in second person singular78 languages · 34%
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 second person singular | 22 | 40 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 14 |
| m in second person singular | 9 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 35 | 13 |
| 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 second person singular | 79% |
| Austronesian | 10 | No m in second person singular | 50% |
| Indo-European | 10 | No m in second person singular | 100% |
| Niger-Congo | 10 | m in second person singular | 60% |
| Pama-Nyungan | 9 | No m in second person singular | 100% |
| Afro-Asiatic | 8 | No m in second person singular | 88% |
| Hokan | 8 | m in second person singular | 100% |
Languages to explore
From the same chapter
- N-M Pronouns 230 languages