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Pama-Nyungan

Ngadjunmaya

Autonym candidate: Ba:donjunga unverified — from alt-names· 38 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-32.0245, 124.4660

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

27 coded · 0 unknown

21 WALS — 27 coded features in total across 21 WALS, 6 AUS extension.

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

Showing 27 of 27 coded features.

WALS

21 features
Lexicon3

  • Hand and Arm

    WALS 129A

    Different

  • Finger and Hand

    WALS 130A

    Identical

  • Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand'

    WALS 130B

    Hunter-gatherers
Morphology1

  • Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology

    WALS 26A

    Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories3

  • Coding of Nominal Plurality

    WALS 33A

    Plural suffix

  • Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan

    WALS 39B

    No inclusive/exclusive opposition

  • Position of Case Affixes

    WALS 51A

    Case suffixes
Simple Clauses2

  • Expression of Pronominal Subjects

    WALS 101A

    Obligatory pronouns in subject position

  • Negative Morphemes

    WALS 112A

    Negative particle
Verbal Categories1

  • Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes

    WALS 69A

    Tense-aspect suffixes
Word order11

  • 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

  • The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages

    WALS 144L

    SV&OV&NegV

  • Order of Subject and Verb

    WALS 82A

    SV

  • Order of Object and Verb

    WALS 83A

    OV

  • Order of Adjective and Noun

    WALS 87A

    Noun-Adjective

  • Internally-headed relative clauses

    WALS 90D

    Internally-headed exists

  • Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun

    WALS 97A

    OV and NAdj

AUS extension

6 features
Case1

  • Where case marking sits: suffix, prefix, clitic, tone, stem change.

    AUS extension AUX007

    suffix
Negation1

  • How declarative clauses are negated: affix, particle, negative auxiliary, etc.

    AUS extension AUX036

    particle
Number1

  • How nominal plural is coded: suffix, prefix, reduplication, plural word, clitic, none.

    AUS extension AUX017

    suffix
Pronoun-Marking2

  • How pronominal subjects are expressed: obligatory free pronoun, subject affix on the verb, clitic on a variable host (e.g. second position / auxiliary), etc.

    AUS extension AUX010

    obligatory-free

  • Whether bound pronouns form a clitic cluster on a variable (typically second-position/auxiliary) host rather than being fixed to the verb.

    AUS extension AUX011

    no
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 (A3, A99)

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree
Divergence from nearest relative
~1,706 yr BP
95% HPD 1,161–2,300 BP

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

Trace this lineage in the deep-time spread

Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog ngad1258ISO 639-3 njuAUSTLANG A3AUSTLANG A99

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.