1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Jaminjungan

Jaminjung

WALS coordinates: 15° 5′ S, 130° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, obligatory Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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56A Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different Nominal Categories
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60A Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Highly differentiated Nominal Syntax
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61A Adjectives without Nouns Without marking Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Both expressed by juxtaposition Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix Complex Sentences
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