Nilo-Saharan languages
Tennet is a [[Nilo-Saharan languages|Nilo-Saharan]], [[Eastern Sudanic languages|Eastern Sudanic]], [[Surmic languages|Surmic]] language. It has several of the features common in other Surmic languages: [[Implosive consonants]], multiple strategies for marking number on nouns, a [[marked nominative]] case system, and [[Verb–subject–object|VSO order]] but sentence-final question words.