Kamu

Autonym candidate: Eastern Daly language unverified — from alt-names· 21 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-13.5393, 131.0980

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

20 coded · 0 unknown

17 WALS — 20 coded features in total across 17 WALS, 3 AUS extension.

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

Showing 20 of 20 coded features.

WALS

17 features

Nominal Categories1

Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Postpositional clitics

Word order16

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
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb
WALS 144B
Immed preverbal
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
Postpositions
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Noun-Demonstrative
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

3 features

Case1

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

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
postpositions

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 (N33)

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 kamu1258ISO 639-3 xmuAUSTLANG N33

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)
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, 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.