Yidiny
WALS coordinates: 17° S, 145° 45′ E
spoken in Australia
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Small | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Small (2-4) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology | comment | |
| 9A | The Velar Nasal | Initial velar nasal | Phonology | comment | |
| 10A | Vowel Nasalization | Contrast absent | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 12A | Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | Phonology | comment | |
| 13A | Tone | No tones | Phonology | comment | |
| 14A | Fixed Stress Locations | No fixed stress | Phonology | comment | |
| 15A | Weight-Sensitive Stress | Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere | Phonology | comment | |
| 16A | Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | Long vowel | Phonology | comment | |
| 17A | Rhythm Types | Dual: both trochaic and iambic | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | No fricatives | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 20A | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | Morphology | comment | |
| 21A | Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Monoexponential case | Morphology | comment | |
| 21B | Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection | monoexponential TAM | Morphology | comment | |
| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 27A | Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | Morphology | comment | |
| 28A | Case Syncretism | Core cases only | Morphology | comment | |
| 29A | Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking | No subject person/number marking | Morphology | comment | |
| 30A | Number of Genders | None | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 31A | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 32A | Systems of Gender Assignment | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | No plural | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 34A | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | No nominal plural | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 35A | Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns | Person-number stem | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 36A | The Associative Plural | Unique affixal associative plural | Nominal Categories |
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| 37A | Definite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 38A | Indefinite Articles | No definite or indefinite article | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 39A | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 39B | Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan | No inclusive/exclusive opposition | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 40A | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection | No person marking | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 41A | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Three-way contrast | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 43A | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related for all demonstratives | Nominal Categories |
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| 44A | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 46A | Indefinite Pronouns | Interrogative-based | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 48A | Person Marking on Adpositions | No adpositions | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 49A | Number of Cases | 8-9 cases | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 50A | Asymmetrical Case-Marking | Qualitatively asymmetrical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | Case suffixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 55A | Numeral Classifiers | Absent | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 56A | Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers | Formally similar, without interrogative | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | No possessive affixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 60A | Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Highly differentiated | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 61A | Adjectives without Nouns | Without marking | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 63A | Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' different from 'with' | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 64A | Nominal and Verbal Conjunction | Differentiation | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | Second person number-neutral | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 71A | The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Maximal system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 73A | The Optative | Inflectional optative absent | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 75A | Epistemic Possibility | Other | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 77A | Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 78A | Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 81A | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 82A | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order | comment | |
| 83A | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order | comment | |
| 84A | Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | OVX | Word Order |
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| 85A | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | No adpositions | Word Order | comment | |
| 86A | Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 87A | Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | Word Order | comment | |
| 88A | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Mixed | Word Order | comment | |
| 89A | Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | Word Order | comment | |
| 90A | Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Adjoined | Word Order | comment | |
| 90F | Adjoined relative clauses | Adjoined relative clause dominant | Word Order | comment | |
| 92A | Position of Polar Question Particles | No question particle | Word Order | comment | |
| 93A | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase | Word Order | comment | |
| 96A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Other | Word Order | comment | |
| 97A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and NAdj | Word Order | comment | |
| 98A | Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases | Ergative - absolutive | Simple Clauses |
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| 99A | Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns | Nominative - accusative (standard) | Simple Clauses |
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| 100A | Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Neutral | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 101A | Expression of Pronominal Subjects | Optional pronouns in subject position | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 102A | Verbal Person Marking | No person marking | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 103A | Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No person marking | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 104A | Order of Person Markers on the Verb | A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 105A | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 106A | Reciprocal Constructions | No reciprocals | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 107A | Passive Constructions | Absent | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 108A | Antipassive Constructions | Oblique patient | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 108B | Productivity of the Antipassive Construction | productive | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 109A | Applicative Constructions | Non-benefactive object; both bases | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 109B | Other Roles of Applied Objects | No other roles (= Only benefactive) | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 110A | Periphrastic Causative Constructions | Purposive but no sequential | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 111A | Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions | Morphological but no compound | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 112A | Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 113A | Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Symmetric | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 114A | Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | Non-assignable | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 116A | Polar Questions | Interrogative intonation only | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 117A | Predicative Possession | Conjunctional | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 118A | Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 119A | Nominal and Locational Predication | Identical | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 120A | Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Possible | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 122A | Relativization on Subjects | Non-reduction | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 125A | Purpose Clauses | Deranked | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 126A | 'When' Clauses | Deranked | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 131A | Numeral Bases | Restricted | Lexicon |
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| 143A | Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb | NegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 143E | Preverbal Negative Morphemes | NegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 143F | Postverbal Negative Morphemes | None | Word Order | comment | |
| 143G | Minor morphological means of signaling negation | None | Word Order | comment | |
| 144A | Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb | SONegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 144B | Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb | Immed preverbal | Word Order | comment | |
| 144L | The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages | SONegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 144P | NegSOV Order | No NegSOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 144Q | SNegOV Order | No SNegOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 144R | SONegV Order | Word&NoDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 144S | SOVNeg Order | NoSOVNeg | Word Order | comment |
