Yukulta

WALS coordinates: 17° 19′ 48.00″ S, 138° 49′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
    Routledge:
    • Yugulda
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives Related for all demonstratives
      Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns No gender distinctions
      Person Marking on Adpositions No adpositions
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation
      Numeral Classifiers Absent
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes No tense-aspect inflection
      The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
      The Prohibitive Special imperative + special negative
      Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Coding of Evidentiality No grammatical evidentials
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb OV
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Internal subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Alignment of Verbal Person Marking Split
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host
      Verbal Person Marking Both the A and P arguments
      Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking Zero in all 3rd person forms
      Order of Person Markers on the Verb Both orders of A and P occur
      Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive
      Passive Constructions Present
      Antipassive Constructions Oblique patient
      Negative Morphemes Double negation
      Polar Questions Question particle
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Identical
      M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns
      N-M Pronouns No N-M pronouns