Nyulnyul

WALS coordinates: 17° S, 122° 50′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Weakly prefixing
Nominal Categories
Definite Articles	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles	No indefinite, but definite article
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns	No gender distinctions
Person Marking on Adpositions	No person marking
Position of Case Affixes	Inpositional clitics
Comitatives and Instrumentals	Mixed
Numeral Classifiers	Absent
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers	Formally similar, without interrogative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Inpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun	Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun	Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Other
Simple Clauses
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking	Accusative
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking	Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking	No zero realization
Order of Person Markers on the Verb	A precedes P
Passive Constructions	Absent
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation	Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation	A/NonReal
Polar Questions	Question particle