Warlpiri

WALS coordinates: 20° S, 132° 20′ E

spoken in Australia

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Warlpiri
Routledge:
Other:
  • Walbiri,
  • Waljbiri
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
14A Fixed Stress Locations Initial Phonology
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15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
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16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
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17A Rhythm Types Trochaic Phonology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Double marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Dependent marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Inconsistent or other Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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39B Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan Inclusive and exclusive differentiated Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Absent Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification No possessive classification Nominal Syntax
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62A Action Nominal Constructions No action nominals Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Adjoined Word Order
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90F Adjoined relative clauses Adjoined relative clause dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Second position Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed Simple Clauses
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110A Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential Simple Clauses
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Identical Lexicon
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130B Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand' Hunter-gatherers Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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