Pungupungu
WALS coordinates: 13° 30′ S, 130° 25′ E
spoken in Australia
Alternative Names
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Verbal Categories | ||
| Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | No tense-aspect inflection | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | SV | |
| Order of Object and Verb | OV | |
| Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | No dominant order | |
| Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | |
| Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | |
| 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 | OV and Postpositions | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and NAdj | |
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| Negative Morphemes | Negative word, unclear if verb or particle | |