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

Yuwaalaraay

WALS coordinates: 29° 30′ S, 148° E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

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

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel
    Rhythm Types Dual: both trochaic and iambic
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    Definite Articles Demonstrative word used as definite article
    Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb OV
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No adpositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Internally headed
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Optional pronouns in subject position
    Periphrastic Causative Constructions Purposive but no sequential
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Different
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible