Bunaba

Autonym candidate: Booneba unverified — from alt-names· 13 name candidates recorded

Comprehensivenearly extinct· AES 5Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-17.8297, 125.6310

Provenance: glottolog

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Grammar profile

23 coded · 0 unknown

17 WALS — 23 coded features in total across 17 WALS, 6 AUS extension.

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

Showing 23 of 23 coded features.

WALS

17 features

Lexicon3

Hand and Arm
WALS 129A
Different
Finger and Hand
WALS 130A
Identical
Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand'
WALS 130B
Hunter-gatherers

Nominal Categories2

Coding of Nominal Plurality
WALS 33A
Plural clitic
Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Inpositional clitics

Simple Clauses1

Expression of Pronominal Subjects
WALS 101A
Subject affixes on verb

Word order11

Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
SV
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
Inpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun
WALS 86A
Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Demonstrative-Noun
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

6 features

Case1

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

Number1

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

Pronoun-Marking2

How pronominal subjects are expressed: obligatory free pronoun, subject affix on the verb, clitic on a variable host (e.g. second position / auxiliary), etc.
AUS extension AUX010
subject-affix-on-verb
Whether bound pronouns form a clitic cluster on a variable (typically second-position/auxiliary) host rather than being fixed to the verb.
AUS extension AUX011
no

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
inpositions

Dictionary & lexicon

Open lexical resource available — 1 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.

English Wiktionary — Category:Bunaba 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 buna1275ISO 639-3 bckAUSTLANG K5

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.