Yawuru

WALS coordinates: 18° S, 122° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

Alternative Names

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

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Nominal Categories
      Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional
      Indefinite Pronouns Special
      Position of Case Affixes Inpositional clitics
      Nominal Syntax
      Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Subject and Verb VS
      Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Inpositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
      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 Other
      Complex Sentences
      'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly