Wathawurrung
WALS coordinates: 38° S, 144° E
spoken in Australia
Alternative Names
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| Ruhlen: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
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| Nominal Categories | ||
| Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | |
| Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second person number-neutral | |
| The Prohibitive | Special imperative + normal negative | |
| Word Order | ||
| Order of Subject, Object and Verb | VOS | |
| Order of Subject and Verb | VS | |
| Order of Object and Verb | VO | |
| Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | |
| Position of Polar Question Particles | Initial | |
| Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | VO and NAdj | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Subject clitics on variable host | |
| Polar Questions | Question particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Hand and Arm | Different | |
| Finger and Hand | Different | |
