Alawa

Autonym candidate: Alaua unverified — from alt-names· 22 name candidates recorded

Comprehensivenearly extinct· AES 5Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-15.5458, 134.2820

Provenance: glottolog

A point locates a language for reference; it never represents the full extent of a people’s Country.

Grammar profile

56 coded · 0 unknown

48 WALS — 56 coded features in total across 48 WALS, 8 AUS extension.

Grambank’s 195 variables are a cross-linguistic baseline— a fixed questionnaire asked of every language — not “the grammar” of Alawa. Read each cell as an answer to a standard typological question. Compare languages in the grammar lens →

Showing 56 of 56 coded features.

WALS

48 features

Morphology2

Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
WALS 26A
Strongly suffixing
Reduplication
WALS 27A
Productive full and partial reduplication

Nominal Categories3

Coding of Nominal Plurality
WALS 33A
Plural prefix
Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
WALS 57A
Possessive suffixes

Nominal Syntax3

Obligatory Possessive Inflection
WALS 58A
Absent
Number of Possessive Nouns
WALS 58B
None reported
Possessive Classification
WALS 59A
Two classes

Phonology16

Front Rounded Vowels
WALS 11A
None
Syllable Structure
WALS 12A
Complex
Tone
WALS 13A
No tones
Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
No weight
Absence of Common Consonants
WALS 18A
No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
WALS 19A
None
Consonant Inventories
WALS 1A
Average
Vowel Quality Inventories
WALS 2A
Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
WALS 3A
Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
WALS 4A
No voicing contrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
WALS 5A
Other
Uvular Consonants
WALS 6A
None
Glottalized Consonants
WALS 7A
No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants
WALS 8A
/l/, no obstruent laterals

Simple Clauses1

Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
Negative particle

Verbal Categories8

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
WALS 65A
Grammatical marking
The Past Tense
WALS 66A
Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense
WALS 67A
Inflectional future exists
The Perfect
WALS 68A
No perfect
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative
WALS 70A
Second singular
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
WALS 77A
No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality
WALS 78A
No grammatical evidentials

Word order15

Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb
WALS 143A
NegV
Preverbal Negative Morphemes
WALS 143E
NegV
Postverbal Negative Morphemes
WALS 143F
None
Minor morphological means of signaling negation
WALS 143G
None
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
WALS 84A
No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 85A
Prepositions
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
WALS 94A
Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 95A
Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
WALS 96A
Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
Other

AUS extension

8 features

Case1

Where case marking sits: suffix, prefix, clitic, tone, stem change.
AUS extension AUX007
suffix

Negation1

How declarative clauses are negated: affix, particle, negative auxiliary, etc.
AUS extension AUX036
particle

Number1

How nominal plural is coded: suffix, prefix, reduplication, plural word, clitic, none.
AUS extension AUX017
prefix

Syntax2

Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).
AUS extension AUX038
no-dominant-order
Prepositions vs postpositions vs no dominant adpositions.
AUS extension AUX039
prepositions

Verb3

Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.
AUS extension AUX026
suffix
Whether reduplication is productive and of what kind (full/partial).
AUS extension AUX030
full-and-partial
Whether grammatical evidentiality is marked, and its scope (direct/indirect).
AUS extension AUX047
none

Dictionary & lexicon

Open lexical resource available — 20 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.

English Wiktionary — Category:Alawa lemmas

Deep-time position

not dated

Not in the dated phylogeny.Only the ~224 Pama-Nyungan leaves in Bouckaert, Bowern & Atkinson (2018) carry a calibrated age. Many languages — especially the older non-Pama-Nyungan families of the north — are genuine context but have no time-calibrated node, and are never shown as dated.

Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog alaw1244ISO 639-3 alhAUSTLANG N92 AUSTLANG N99

Per-facet provenance

Classification: Glottolog 5.3 CLDF (CC-BY-4.0)
Coordinates: Glottolog 5.3 (CC-BY-4.0)
Endangerment: Glottolog AES (CC-BY-4.0)
Grammar: Grambank v1.0.3 / WALS 2020.4 (CC-BY-4.0)
Lexicon: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Identifiers: Glottolog 5.3 + AIATSIS AUSTLANG

Data-completeness for this profile: name, any id, glottocode, iso639 3, austlang, classification chain, coordinates real, coordinates any, endangerment, grammar profile, lexicon data, autonym candidate. Autonyms are unverified candidates drawn from alt-name lists; coordinates carry a provenance flag; a spreading language lineage is not a moving population. Coverage tier: Comprehensive.