Burarra

WALS coordinates: 12° 15′ S, 134° 35′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Complex
Tone	No tones
Fixed Stress Locations	Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress	Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems	No weight
Rhythm Types	No rhythmic stress
Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Reduplication	Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes	Case prefixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	OV and Postpositions
Simple Clauses
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/NonReal