Ngadjumaja

WALS coordinates: 32° 20′ S, 123° 50′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ngadjunmaya
Routledge:
  • Ngadjunmaya
Other:
  • Tchaakalaaga,
  • Ngadju,
  • Badonjunga
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
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 Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Identical