1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Wororan

Ungarinjin

WALS coordinates: 16° 19′ 48.00″ S, 126° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ungarinjin
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Ngarinjin
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    The Velar Nasal Initial velar nasal
    Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Left-edge: First or second
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
    Rhythm Types Undetermined
    Absence of Common Consonants No fricatives
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking
    Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking
    Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Little affixation
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Case Syncretism No case marking
    Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking Not syncretic
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural complete reduplication
    Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
    Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
    Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
    Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns Inclusive/exclusive
    Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection Inclusive/exclusive
    Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 3rd person singular only
    Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
    Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
    Number of Cases 8-9 cases
    Asymmetrical Case-Marking Subtractive-quantitatively asymmetrical
    Position of Case Affixes Postpositional clitics
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Prefixes and suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent
    Possessive Classification Three to five classes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
    Situational Possibility Other kinds of markers
    Epistemic Possibility Other
    Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap
    Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb OVS
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    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 Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Neutral
    Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns Neutral
    Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split
    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 P precedes A
    Passive Constructions Absent
    Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Neither
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation Both
    Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation A/NonReal
    Predicative Adjectives Mixed
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Complex Sentences
    Relativization on Subjects Gap
    Relativization on Obliques Gap
    Purpose Clauses Deranked
    'When' Clauses Balanced
    Reason Clauses Balanced
    Utterance Complement Clauses Balanced
    Lexicon
    M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
    N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns