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Pama-Nyungan

Ngawun

Autonym candidate: Lenga ngawun unverified — from alt-names· 9 name candidates recorded

Comprehensiveextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-19.4484, 141.4710

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

31 coded · 0 unknown

26 WALS — 31 coded features in total across 26 WALS, 5 AUS extension.

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

Showing 31 of 31 coded features.

WALS

26 features
Lexicon1

  • Hand and Arm

    WALS 129A

    Different
Morphology2

  • Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology

    WALS 26A

    Strongly suffixing

  • Reduplication

    WALS 27A

    Full reduplication only
Nominal Categories2

  • Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan

    WALS 39B

    No inclusive/exclusive opposition

  • Position of Case Affixes

    WALS 51A

    Case suffixes
Simple Clauses1

  • Negative Morphemes

    WALS 112A

    Negative particle
Verbal Categories1

  • Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes

    WALS 69A

    Tense-aspect suffixes
Word order19

  • 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

    NegSVO

  • Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb

    WALS 144B

    Beginning, not immed preverbal

  • The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages

    WALS 144D

    NegSVO

  • NegSVO Order

    WALS 144H

    NoDoubleNeg

  • SNegVO Order

    WALS 144I

    No SNegVO

  • SVNegO Order

    WALS 144J

    No SVNegO

  • SVONeg Order

    WALS 144K

    No SVONeg

  • Order of Subject, Object and Verb

    WALS 81A

    SVO

  • Order of Subject and Verb

    WALS 82A

    SV

  • Order of Object and Verb

    WALS 83A

    VO

  • Order of Adjective and Noun

    WALS 87A

    No dominant order

  • Order of Demonstrative and Noun

    WALS 88A

    Demonstrative-Noun

  • Order of Numeral and Noun

    WALS 89A

    Numeral-Noun

  • Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions

    WALS 93A

    Initial interrogative phrase

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

    WALS 97A

    Other

AUS extension

5 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
Syntax1

  • Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).

    AUS extension AUX038

    SVO
Verb2

  • Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.

    AUS extension AUX026

    suffix

  • Whether reduplication is productive and of what kind (full/partial).

    AUS extension AUX030

    full-only

Dictionary & lexicon

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

English Wiktionary — Category:Ngawun lemmas

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree
Divergence from nearest relative
~511 yr BP
95% HPD 285–820 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 ngaw1240ISO 639-3 nxnAUSTLANG G17AUSTLANG G19

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.