Badimaya

Autonym candidate: Baadeemaia unverified — from alt-names· 31 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-29.0647, 117.2460

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

34 coded · 0 unknown

29 WALS — 34 coded features in total across 29 WALS, 5 AUS extension.

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

Showing 34 of 34 coded features.

WALS

29 features

Nominal Categories2

Coding of Nominal Plurality
WALS 33A
Plural suffix
Indefinite Pronouns
WALS 46A
Interrogative-based

Nominal Syntax1

Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
WALS 64A
Differentiation

Phonology4

Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
Initial
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
No weight
Rhythm Types
WALS 17A
Trochaic

Simple Clauses3

Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
WALS 105A
Indirect-object construction
Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
Negative particle
Polar Questions
WALS 116A
Interrogative intonation only

Verbal Categories1

Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
Tense-aspect suffixes

Word order18

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
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb
WALS 144A
Other
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages
WALS 144L
Other NegV
SOVNeg Order
WALS 144S
NoSOVNeg
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
SOV
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
SV
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
WALS 84A
No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun
WALS 86A
Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun
WALS 89A
No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
OV and NAdj

AUS extension

5 features

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
suffix

Pronoun1

Whether interrogatives ('who/what') double as indefinites ('someone/something') — an 'ignorative' series. Partially derivable from WALS Indefinite Pronouns (interrogative-based).
AUS extension AUX051
yes

Syntax1

Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).
AUS extension AUX038
SOV

Verb1

Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.
AUS extension AUX026
suffix

Dictionary & lexicon

Catalogue pointer only. A lexical resource is recorded but is rights-managed or not openly downloadable, so it is not browsable here. AIATSIS AUSTLANG catalogue entry (A13, A14, A29, A41, A42, A49, A93)

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~1,438 yr BP

95% HPD 935–2,006 BP

Dates the LANGUAGE lineage (Bouckaert 2018 BEAST tree), NOT a population arrival.

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Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog badi1246ISO 639-3 biaAUSTLANG A13 AUSTLANG A14 AUSTLANG A29 AUSTLANG A41 AUSTLANG A42 AUSTLANG A49 AUSTLANG A93

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: catalogue pointer (rights-managed)
Deep-time: Bouckaert, Bowern & Atkinson 2018 (Phlorest CLDF, CC-BY-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, deep time dated, 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: Documented.