1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Pama-Nyungan

Ngawun

WALS coordinates: 19° S, 141° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

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Alternative Names

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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Full reduplication only Morphology
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39B Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan No inclusive/exclusive opposition Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb NegSVO Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Beginning, not immed preverbal Word Order
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144D The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages NegSVO Word Order
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144H NegSVO Order NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144I SNegVO Order No SNegVO Word Order
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144J SVNegO Order No SVNegO Word Order
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144K SVONeg Order No SVONeg Word Order
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