Kuuku-Ya'u

Autonym candidate: Bagadji unverified — from alt-names· 26 name candidates recorded

Documentedmoribund· AES 4LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-12.4947, 143.1650

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

17 coded · 0 unknown

16 WALS — 17 coded features in total across 16 WALS, 1 AUS extension.

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

Showing 17 of 17 coded features.

WALS

16 features

Phonology4

Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
Long vowel
Rhythm Types
WALS 17A
Trochaic

Simple Clauses1

Polar Questions
WALS 116A
Interrogative intonation only

Verbal Categories1

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

Word order10

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 Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun
WALS 89A
Noun-Numeral
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
WALS 94A
Internal subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
OV and NAdj

AUS extension

1 features

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 (Y22)

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~435 yr BP

95% HPD 211–711 BP

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

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Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog kuuk1238ISO 639-3 kuyAUSTLANG Y22

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.