Arabana

WALS coordinates: 28° 15′ S, 136° 15′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives	Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives	Identical
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No adpositions
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Ordinal Numerals	None
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect	None
Verbal Number and Suppletion	None
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Neutral
Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No person marking
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb
Passive Constructions	Absent
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle