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

Kuuku Ya'u

WALS coordinates: 12° 34′ 48.00″ S, 143° 4′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Kuuku-Ya'u
    Other:
    • Koko-Ja'o,
    • Bagadji,
    • Ya'o
    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 Trochaic
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Internal subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only