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

Paakantyi

WALS coordinates: 32° 30′ S, 142° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Baagandji
Routledge:
  • Baagandji (Southern)
Other:
  • Baagandji,
  • Bagandji,
  • Kula,
  • Southern Baagandji
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
Rhythm Types Trochaic
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Reduplication Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Four-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Identical
Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive 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 Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
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 VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Different
Finger and Hand Identical