1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: West Barkly

Djingili

WALS coordinates: 17° 45′ S, 134° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Djingili
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Tjingilu,
    • Jingulu,
    • Lee
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Rhythm Types Trochaic
    Morphology
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Double marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Double-marking
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    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
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed
    Antipassive Constructions No antipassive
    Applicative Constructions No applicative construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Identical
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns