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

Pitta Pitta

WALS coordinates: 22° 50′ S, 140° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pitta-Pitta
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Pitta-Pitta,
    • Bidhbidha
    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
    Number of Genders Two
    Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems Sex-based
    Systems of Gender Assignment Semantic
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem
    Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    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
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions 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
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Double-object construction
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different