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

Nhanda

WALS coordinates: 27° S, 114° 10′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nhanda
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Nanda
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Both expressed by juxtaposition
    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 No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not 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
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Complex Sentences
    'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit