Ngawun
WALS coordinates: 19° S, 141° 30′ E
spoken in Australia
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: | |
| Routledge: | |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Morphology | ||
| Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | |
| Reduplication | Full reduplication only | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SVO | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | No dominant order | |
| Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Demonstrative-Noun | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Numeral-Noun | |
| Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Initial interrogative phrase | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | Other | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
