Mbabaram

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

Comprehensiveextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-17.4155, 145.3766

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

21 coded · 0 unknown

21 WALS — 21 coded features in total across 21 WALS.

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

Showing 21 of 21 coded features.

WALS

21 features

Lexicon1

Hand and Arm
WALS 129A
Different

Nominal Categories1

Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan
WALS 39B
No inclusive/exclusive opposition

Phonology16

Front Rounded Vowels
WALS 11A
None
Syllable Structure
WALS 12A
Moderately complex
Tone
WALS 13A
No tones
Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
Second
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
No weight
Absence of Common Consonants
WALS 18A
No fricatives
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
WALS 19A
None
Consonant Inventories
WALS 1A
Average
Vowel Quality Inventories
WALS 2A
Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
WALS 3A
Moderately high
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
WALS 4A
No voicing contrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
WALS 5A
Other
Uvular Consonants
WALS 6A
None
Glottalized Consonants
WALS 7A
No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants
WALS 8A
/l/, no obstruent laterals

Simple Clauses1

Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
WALS 105A
Indirect-object construction

Verbal Categories2

The Morphological Imperative
WALS 70A
Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive
WALS 71A
Normal imperative + special negative

Dictionary & lexicon

Open lexical resource available — 2 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.

English Wiktionary — Category:Mbabaram lemmas

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~2,658 yr BP

95% HPD 1,689–3,667 BP

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

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Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog mbab1239ISO 639-3 vmbAUSTLANG Y115 AUSTLANG Y204

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
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.