Iwaidja

WALS coordinates: 11° 30′ S, 132° 40′ 12.00″ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Iwaidja
Routledge:
  • Yiwaidja
Other:
  • Jiwadja,
  • Iwaidji
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
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 SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles In either of two positions
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 Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions Question particle
Predicative Adjectives Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication Different
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible