1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Pama-Nyungan

Djaru

WALS coordinates: 18° 45′ S, 128° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Djaru
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
      Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      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 complete reduplication
      Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
      Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Two-way contrast
      Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Unrelated
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      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 Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed
      Reciprocal Constructions Identical to reflexive
      Antipassive Constructions Oblique patient
      Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential
      Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Neither