1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Maran

Mara

WALS coordinates: 15° S, 135° 10′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
      Definite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Articles No definite or indefinite article
      Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
      Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes
      Ordinal Numerals None
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect Aspect
      Verbal Number and Suppletion None
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
      Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      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 Relative Clause and Noun Other
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only