Gurindji

Autonym candidate: Coorinji unverified — from alt-names· 29 name candidates recorded

Comprehensiveshifting· AES 3LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-17.0329, 130.3790

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

2 coded · 0 unknown

2 WALS — 2 coded features in total across 2 WALS.

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

Showing 2 of 2 coded features.

WALS

2 features

Nominal Categories1

The Associative Plural
WALS 36A
Unique affixal associative plural

Other1

Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
WALS 142A
Other or none

Dictionary & lexicon

Live dictionary. 60 entries are browsable now.

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Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~878 yr BP

95% HPD 615–1,161 BP

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

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Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog guri1247ISO 639-3 gueAUSTLANG C20 AUSTLANG C24 AUSTLANG C34 AUSTLANG C35 AUSTLANG C37 AUSTLANG K21 AUSTLANG K30 AUSTLANG K34

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: mobtranslate-pg live dictionary
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, lexicon data, 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: Comprehensive.