Margany

WALS coordinates: 27° S, 144° 30′ E

Alternative Names

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
Reduplication	Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories
Number of Genders	None
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems	No gender
Systems of Gender Assignment	No gender
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural suffix
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns	Person-number stem
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality	No grammatical evidentials
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SOV
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	OV
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Obligatory pronouns in subject position
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions	Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm	Different