Iwaidja
Autonym candidate: Adawuli unverified — from alt-names· 56 name candidates recorded
Classification
Glottolog family treeCountry & location
Glottolog point-11.3379, 132.4530
Provenance: glottolog
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Grammar profile
94 coded · 2 unknown66 Grambank + 18 WALS — 96 coded features in total across 68 Grambank, 18 WALS, 10 AUS extension.
Grambank’s 195 variables are a cross-linguistic baseline— a fixed questionnaire asked of every language — not “the grammar” of Iwaidja. Read each cell as an answer to a standard typological question. Compare languages in the grammar lens →
Showing 96 of 96 coded features.
Grambank
68 featuresClause and Syntax8
- unknown
Order of numeral and noun in the noun phrase: 1=Numeral-Noun, 2=Noun-Numeral, 3=both orders occur.
Grambank GB024
- present
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by intonation alone.
Grambank GB257
- absent
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a special word order.
Grambank GB260
- absent
Whether the comparative uses a form that elsewhere means 'surpass/exceed'.
Grambank GB265
- absent
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by tone.
Grambank GB291
- absent
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a V-not-V construction.
Grambank GB297
- absent
Whether interrogative quantifiers show a count/mass distinction ('how many' vs 'how much').
Grambank GB325
- absent
Whether content interrogatives normally stay in situ (not fronted).
Grambank GB326
Demonstrative3
- absent
Whether demonstratives make three or more distance contrasts (e.g. near/mid/far).
Grambank GB035
- absent
Whether demonstratives encode an elevation distinction (up-here vs down-there).
Grambank GB036
- absent
Whether demonstratives encode a visible-vs-nonvisible distinction.
Grambank GB037
Nominal35
- Dem-N
Order of an adnominal demonstrative ('this/that') and noun: 1=Dem-Noun, 2=Noun-Dem, 3=both.
Grambank GB025
- absent
Whether independent 3rd-person pronouns mark a gender distinction (he vs she).
Grambank GB030
- absent
Whether every person category has a dual (or unit-augmented) form in addition to plural.
Grambank GB031
- absent
Whether the language has demonstrative classifiers.
Grambank GB038
- absent
Whether there is productive morphological dual marking on nouns.
Grambank GB043
- absent
Whether there is productive morphological plural marking on nouns.
Grambank GB044
- absent
Whether there is an associative plural marker ('X and those associated with X').
Grambank GB046
- absent
Whether words other than verbs or nouns undergo reduplication.
Grambank GB160
- absent
Whether there is productive morphological trial marking on nouns.
Grambank GB165
- absent
Whether there is productive morphological paucal marking on nouns ('a few').
Grambank GB166
- absent
Whether an adjective-like property word can agree with its noun in gender/noun class.
Grambank GB170
- absent
Whether an adnominal demonstrative can agree with its noun in gender/noun class.
Grambank GB171
- absent
Whether an article can agree with its noun in gender/noun class.
Grambank GB172
- absent
Whether the verb marks the animacy of an argument (independent of NP-level gender/class).
Grambank GB177
- absent
Whether an adjective-like property word can agree with its noun in number.
Grambank GB184
- absent
Whether an adnominal demonstrative can agree with its noun in number.
Grambank GB185
- absent
Whether an article can agree with its noun in number.
Grambank GB186
- absent
Whether an adnominal numeral can agree with its noun in gender/noun class.
Grambank GB198
- absent
Whether predicative possession can use a transitive 'have' (habeo) verb.
Grambank GB250
- present
Whether there is a clause-initial yes/no question particle.
Grambank GB262
- absent
Whether there is a clause-final yes/no question particle.
Grambank GB263
- absent
Whether there is a yes/no question particle sitting neither clause-initially nor clause-finally.
Grambank GB264
- absent
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a question particle plus verbal morphology.
Grambank GB285
- absent
Whether there are special adnominal possessive pronouns not formed by a regular process.
Grambank GB313
- absent
Whether dual number is marked in the NP by a dedicated free (unbound) element.
Grambank GB317
- absent
Whether plural number is marked in the NP by a dedicated free (unbound) element.
Grambank GB318
- absent
Whether trial number is marked in the NP by a dedicated free (unbound) element.
Grambank GB319
- absent
Whether paucal number is marked in the NP by a dedicated free (unbound) element.
Grambank GB320
- absent
Whether adnominal possession can be marked by a prefix on the possessor.
Grambank GB430
- present
Whether adnominal possession can be marked by a prefix on the possessed noun.
Grambank GB431
- absent
Whether adnominal possession can be marked by a suffix on the possessor.
Grambank GB432
- absent
Whether adnominal possession can be marked by a suffix on the possessed noun.
Grambank GB433
- absent
Whether mood can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.
Grambank GB519
- absent
Whether aspect can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.
Grambank GB520
- absent
Whether tense can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.
Grambank GB521
Other4
- absent
Whether there is productive overt singular marking on nouns.
Grambank GB042
- present
Whether the language has prepositions.
Grambank GB074
- absent
Whether the language has postpositions.
Grambank GB075
- absent
Whether singular number is marked in the NP by a dedicated free (unbound) element.
Grambank GB316
Pronoun6
- present
Whether the pronoun system distinguishes inclusive ('we incl. you') from exclusive ('we excl. you').
Grambank GB028
- absent
Whether the language has a logophoric pronoun.
Grambank GB167
- absent
Whether 2nd-person independent pronouns mark a male/female distinction.
Grambank GB196
- absent
Whether 1st-person independent pronouns mark a male/female distinction.
Grambank GB197
- present
Whether there is a phonologically independent reflexive pronoun.
Grambank GB305
- present
Whether there is a phonologically independent (non-bipartite) reciprocal pronoun.
Grambank GB306
Verb and Valency12
- absent
Whether independent oblique personal pronouns carry morphological case.
Grambank GB073
- unknown
Whether present tense is overtly marked on the verb.
Grambank GB082
- absent
Whether mood can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB119
- absent
Whether aspect can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB120
- absent
Whether tense can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB121
- absent
Whether verb compounding is a regular process.
Grambank GB122
- absent
Whether causatives are formed by affixes/clitics on the verb.
Grambank GB155
- absent
Whether yes/no questions can be marked by verbal morphology alone.
Grambank GB286
- absent
Whether standard negation can be marked by an inflecting negative auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB298
- absent
Whether the agent can be expressed overtly in a passive clause ('by ...').
Grambank GB304
- absent
Whether there is a dedicated interrogative verb for content questions ('do-what?').
Grambank GB324
- present
Whether the S or A argument can be dropped when inferrable from context (pro-drop / null anaphora).
Grambank GB522
WALS
18 featuresNominal Categories1
- Possessive prefixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
WALS 57A
Simple Clauses4
- Question particle
Polar Questions
WALS 116A
- Mixed
Predicative Adjectives
WALS 118A
- Different
Nominal and Locational Predication
WALS 119A
- Possible
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
WALS 120A
Verbal Categories1
- Tense-aspect suffixes
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
Word order12
- SVO
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
- SV
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
- VO
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
- No dominant order
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 85A
- Genitive-Noun
Order of Genitive and Noun
WALS 86A
- Adjective-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
- Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
- Numeral-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun
WALS 89A
- In either of two positions
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
- Initial interrogative phrase
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
- Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 95A
- VO and AdjN
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
AUS extension
10 featuresDemonstrative1
- two
Number of distance contrasts (2, 3+ deictic terms).
AUS extension AUX023
Number3
- no
Productive morphological dual on nouns.
AUS extension AUX014
- no
Productive morphological paucal ('a few') on nouns.
AUS extension AUX015
- no
Productive morphological trial (exactly three) on nouns.
AUS extension AUX016
Pronoun1
- no
Whether independent 3rd-person pronouns mark gender (he/she).
AUS extension AUX024
Syntax3
- SVO
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
- yes
Whether S/A can be omitted when inferrable — pervasive in bound-pronoun Australian languages.
AUS extension AUX042
Valency1
- no
Whether causatives are formed by an affix/clitic on the verb.
AUS extension AUX035
Verb1
- suffix
Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.
AUS extension AUX026
Dictionary & lexicon
Open lexical resource available — 20 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.
English Wiktionary — Category:Iwaidja lemmasDeep-time position
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Identifiers
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.