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

Gugada

WALS coordinates: 30° S, 134° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

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

        Features

        Feature Value References
        Phonology
        Fixed Stress Locations Initial
        Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
        Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
        Rhythm Types Trochaic
        Morphology
        Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
        Nominal Categories
        Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
        Verbal Categories
        Perfective/Imperfective Aspect No grammatical marking
        The Past Tense Present, no remoteness distinctions
        The Future Tense Inflectional future exists
        The Perfect No perfect
        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 Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
        Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
        Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
        Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
        Simple Clauses
        Negative Morphemes Variation between negative word and affix
        Polar Questions Question particle