Muruwari

WALS coordinates: 28° 45′ S, 147° E

Alternative Names

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
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural complete reduplication
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes	Case suffixes
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun	Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Initial interrogative phrase
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
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Polar Questions	Question particle