Mbabaram
WALS coordinates: 17° 10′ S, 145° E
spoken in Australia
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately high | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Fixed Stress Locations | Second | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | No weight | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | No fricatives | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second person number-neutral | |
| The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + special negative | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
