Wubuy

Autonym candidate: Lingua nunggubuyu unverified — from alt-names· 22 name candidates recorded

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Classification

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Country & location

Glottolog point

-14.2623, 135.7530

Provenance: glottolog

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Grammar profile

143 coded · 0 unknown

118 WALS — 143 coded features in total across 118 WALS, 25 AUS extension.

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Showing 143 of 143 coded features.

WALS

118 features

Complex Sentences4

Relativization on Subjects
WALS 122A
Gap
Relativization on Obliques
WALS 123A
Gap
Purpose Clauses
WALS 125A
Deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses
WALS 128A
Balanced

Lexicon7

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
M-T Pronouns
WALS 136A
No M-T pronouns
M in First Person Singular
WALS 136B
No m in first person singular
N-M Pronouns
WALS 137A
No N-M pronouns
M in Second Person Singular
WALS 137B
No m in second person singular

Morphology8

Locus of Marking in the Clause
WALS 23A
Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
WALS 24A
Dependent marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
WALS 25A
Inconsistent or other
Zero Marking of A and P Arguments
WALS 25B
Non-zero marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
WALS 26A
Equal prefixing and suffixing
Reduplication
WALS 27A
Productive full and partial reduplication
Case Syncretism
WALS 28A
No syncretism
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
WALS 29A
Syncretic

Nominal Categories23

Number of Genders
WALS 30A
Five or more
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
WALS 31A
Sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment
WALS 32A
Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality
WALS 33A
Plural prefix
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
WALS 35A
Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
The Associative Plural
WALS 36A
Unique affixal associative plural
Definite Articles
WALS 37A
No definite or indefinite article
Indefinite Articles
WALS 38A
No definite or indefinite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
WALS 39A
Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
WALS 40A
Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
WALS 41A
Three-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
WALS 42A
Identical
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
WALS 43A
Unrelated
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
WALS 44A
In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
WALS 45A
No politeness distinction
Indefinite Pronouns
WALS 46A
Interrogative-based
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
WALS 47A
Differentiated
Person Marking on Adpositions
WALS 48A
No adpositions
Number of Cases
WALS 49A
10 or more cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking
WALS 50A
Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Case suffixes
Ordinal Numerals
WALS 53A
None
Numeral Classifiers
WALS 55A
Absent

Nominal Syntax3

Obligatory Possessive Inflection
WALS 58A
Absent
Number of Possessive Nouns
WALS 58B
None reported
Possessive Classification
WALS 59A
Two classes

Phonology19

Vowel Nasalization
WALS 10A
Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels
WALS 11A
None
Syllable Structure
WALS 12A
Moderately complex
Tone
WALS 13A
No tones
Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
No weight
Rhythm Types
WALS 17A
Trochaic
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
The Velar Nasal
WALS 9A
Initial velar nasal

Simple Clauses19

Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
WALS 100A
Hierarchical
Expression of Pronominal Subjects
WALS 101A
Subject affixes on verb
Verbal Person Marking
WALS 102A
Both the A and P arguments
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
WALS 103A
Zero in all 3rd person forms
Order of Person Markers on the Verb
WALS 104A
A and P are fused
Reciprocal Constructions
WALS 106A
Distinct from reflexive
Passive Constructions
WALS 107A
Absent
Antipassive Constructions
WALS 108A
No antipassive
Productivity of the Antipassive Construction
WALS 108B
no antipassive
Applicative Constructions
WALS 109A
Benefactive and other; both bases
Other Roles of Applied Objects
WALS 109B
No other roles (= Only benefactive)
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
WALS 111A
Morphological but no compound
Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
Negative particle
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
WALS 113A
Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
WALS 114A
A/NonReal and A/Cat
Polar Questions
WALS 116A
Question particle
Comparative Constructions
WALS 121A
Conjoined
Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
WALS 98A
Neutral
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
WALS 99A
Neutral

Verbal Categories13

Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative
WALS 70A
No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive
WALS 71A
Normal imperative + special negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems
WALS 72A
Maximal system
The Optative
WALS 73A
Inflectional optative absent
Situational Possibility
WALS 74A
Affixes on verbs
Epistemic Possibility
WALS 75A
Other
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
WALS 76A
No overlap
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
WALS 77A
No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality
WALS 78A
No grammatical evidentials
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
WALS 79A
Aspect
Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives
WALS 79B
None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material)
Verbal Number and Suppletion
WALS 80A
None

Word order22

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
No dominant order
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
No adpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun
WALS 86A
No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun
WALS 90A
Noun-Relative clause
Postnominal relative clauses
WALS 90C
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
In either of two positions
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
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 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

25 features

Alignment5

Case-marking alignment of full (non-pronominal) noun phrases.
AUS extension AUX001
neutral
Case-marking alignment of independent personal pronouns.
AUS extension AUX002
neutral
Alignment of person marking (agreement/bound pronouns) on the verb.
AUS extension AUX003
hierarchical
Whether full nouns and pronouns use DIFFERENT case alignments (e.g. nouns ergative but pronouns nominative-accusative) — the classic Australian split.
AUS extension AUX004
no
Whether ergativity is conditioned by the person/NP-type hierarchy (ergative on nouns/3rd, accusative on speech-act pronouns) — a hierarchy-based split.
AUS extension AUX005
no

Case2

Size of the morphological case inventory on nouns.
AUS extension AUX006
10+
Where case marking sits: suffix, prefix, clitic, tone, stem change.
AUS extension AUX007
suffix

Clause1

How comparison of inequality is expressed: locational standard, 'exceed', conjoined, particle.
AUS extension AUX046
conjoined

Gender2

Count of gender / noun-class categories.
AUS extension AUX021
five+
Whether the gender system is sex-based or non-sex-based (or absent).
AUS extension AUX022
sex-based

Negation1

How declarative clauses are negated: affix, particle, negative auxiliary, etc.
AUS extension AUX036
particle

Number2

How nominal plural is coded: suffix, prefix, reduplication, plural word, clitic, none.
AUS extension AUX017
prefix
How number is built into independent personal pronouns.
AUS extension AUX018
person-number-stem+pron-plural

Numerals1

Whether counting requires a sortal numeral classifier.
AUS extension AUX044
absent

Pronoun3

Whether 1st-person non-singular distinguishes inclusive ('we incl. you') from exclusive.
AUS extension AUX019
yes
Whether the inclusive/exclusive distinction also appears in verbal person marking.
AUS extension AUX020
yes
Whether interrogatives ('who/what') double as indefinites ('someone/something') — an 'ignorative' series. Partially derivable from WALS Indefinite Pronouns (interrogative-based).
AUS extension AUX051
yes

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
subject-affix-on-verb
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

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
no-adpositions

Valency1

Whether reciprocal marking is identical to, or distinct from, reflexive marking.
AUS extension AUX033
distinct

Verb3

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-and-partial
Whether grammatical evidentiality is marked, and its scope (direct/indirect).
AUS extension AUX047
none

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 (N128)

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 nung1290ISO 639-3 nuyAUSTLANG N128

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.