Dizi
Afro-Asiatic family · Dizoid branch · Africa
Scored by how often each of its values recurs in the atlas, Dizi has the eighth most ordinary profile of the 409 languages compared on this measure.
On Systems of Gender Assignment, all 19 other Afro-Asiatic languages coded have the value “Semantic and formal assignment”; Dizi has “Semantic assignment”.
Contrast Dizi with Oromo (Harar) or with any other language
Uncommon values
Values that fewer than one in ten of the coded languages share with Dizi, rarest first.
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive SystemsMissing /p/33 of 567
- Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun PhrasesPossessor is double-marked22 of 236
Inside the Afro-Asiatic family
Dizi matches the most frequent Afro-Asiatic value on 28 of the 40 features where at least three other members of the family are coded (70%). Among the 24 Afro-Asiatic languages profiled here, that rate ranks eighth from the top.
Closest profiles
Languages that share the most coded values with Dizi; the count is out of the features both languages are coded for.
The rest of the profile
WALS codes Dizi for 40 of the 144 profile features used on this site. The remaining 37 are listed here, grouped by topic; within each group the value Dizi shares with the fewest languages comes first.
Sounds 12
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Glottalized Consonants | Ejectives only | 58 of 567 |
| Tone | Complex tone system | 88 of 527 |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | Voicing contrast in both plosives and fricatives | 158 of 567 |
| Syllable Structure | Complex syllable structure | 151 of 486 |
| Consonant Inventories | Average | 201 of 563 |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | 234 of 564 |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average vowel inventory (5-6) | 287 of 564 |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | 388 of 567 |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | 449 of 567 |
| Uvular Consonants | No uvulars | 470 of 567 |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | 503 of 567 |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | 525 of 562 |
Word structure 3
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Locus of Marking in the Clause | P is dependent-marked | 63 of 236 |
| Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Inconsistent marking or other type | 121 of 236 |
| Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Non-zero marking | 219 of 235 |
Nouns and pronouns 5
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | Gender distinctions in 3rd person singular only | 61 of 378 |
| Number of Genders | Two | 50 of 257 |
| Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | Sex-based gender system | 84 of 257 |
| Person Marking on Adpositions | Adpositions without person marking | 209 of 378 |
| Numeral Classifiers | Numeral classifiers are absent | 260 of 400 |
Noun phrases 3
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Possessive Classification | Two classes | 94 of 243 |
| Obligatory Possessive Inflection | No obligatorily possessed nouns | 201 of 244 |
| Number of Possessive Nouns | None reported | 233 of 243 |
Verbs: tense, mood, evidence 2
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | 146 of 496 |
| The Morphological Imperative | Second singular and second plural | 292 of 548 |
Simple clauses 8
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| Verbal Person Marking | Person marking of only the A argument | 73 of 378 |
| Predicative Adjectives | Predicative adjectives have mixed encoding | 103 of 386 |
| Passive Constructions | There is a passive construction | 162 of 373 |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Zero copula is possible | 175 of 386 |
| Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No zero realization of third person S forms | 181 of 380 |
| Order of Person Markers on the Verb | A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb | 187 of 379 |
| Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative alignment | 212 of 380 |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | 269 of 386 |
Vocabulary 4
| Feature | Value | Languages sharing it |
|---|---|---|
| M in Second Person Singular | No m in second person singular | 152 of 230 |
| M in First Person Singular | No m in first person singular | 177 of 230 |
| N-M Pronouns | No N-M pronouns | 194 of 230 |
| M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | 200 of 230 |