Nominal and Locational Predication
Simple clauses · one world map for each value
WALS codes 386 languages for this feature. The most frequent value, “Different”, covers 269 of them (70%); the least frequent, “Identical”, covers 117.
That value is most frequent in Papunesia (88% of the 72 languages coded there) and least frequent in Eurasia (49% of 111).
All 49 Austronesian languages coded have “Different”.
Trans-New Guinea is the most divided, its largest group reaching only 8 of 15.
Different269 languages · 70%
Identical117 languages · 30%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Different | 70 | 54 | 63 | 12 | 55 | 15 |
| Identical | 17 | 57 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 14 |
| All values | 87 | 111 | 72 | 20 | 67 | 29 |
Inside the largest families
| Family | Coded | Most frequent value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austronesian | 49 | Different | 100% |
| Niger-Congo | 30 | Different | 73% |
| Indo-European | 29 | Identical | 79% |
| Afro-Asiatic | 25 | Different | 64% |
| Trans-New Guinea | 15 | Identical | 53% |
| Eastern Sudanic | 13 | Different | 100% |
| Sino-Tibetan | 13 | Different | 100% |
| Austro-Asiatic | 12 | Different | 92% |
| Pama-Nyungan | 11 | Different | 64% |
| Uralic | 11 | Identical | 100% |
| Altaic | 10 | Identical | 90% |
| Uto-Aztecan | 8 | Different | 88% |