1. Family: Australian
  2. Genus: Pama-Nyungan

Yanyuwa

WALS coordinates: 16° 25′ S, 137° 10′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yanyuwa
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Yanyula, Anyula,
    • Wadiri,
    • Yanyula,
    • Anyula,
    • Janjula
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately large
    Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
    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
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone No tones
    Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
    Rhythm Types Trochaic
    Absence of Common Consonants No fricatives
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural prefix
    Occurrence of Nominal Plurality Only human nouns, optional
    Verbal Categories
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
    Word Order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Simple Clauses
    Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed