Yawuru

WALS coordinates: 18° S, 122° 30′ E

spoken in Australia

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, always optional Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Special Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Inpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity Nominal Syntax
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Inpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly Complex Sentences
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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