Waray (in Australia)

WALS coordinates: 13° 10′ 12.00″ S, 131° 15′ E

Alternative Names

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
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
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Locus of Marking in the Clause	Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases	Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology	Inconsistent or other
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Indefinite Pronouns	Interrogative-based
Position of Case Affixes	Postpositional clitics
Nominal Syntax
Obligatory Possessive Inflection	Absent
Possessive Classification	No possessive classification
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Postpositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Other
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Subject affixes on verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'	Double-object construction
Negative Morphemes	Negative particle