Wambayan
Autonym candidate: Binbinka unverified — from alt-names· 31 name candidates recorded
Classification
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Glottolog point-17.4960, 135.6830
Provenance: glottolog
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Grammar profile
227 coded · 0 unknown103 Grambank + 86 WALS — 227 coded features in total across 103 Grambank, 86 WALS, 38 AUS extension.
Grambank’s 195 variables are a cross-linguistic baseline— a fixed questionnaire asked of every language — not “the grammar” of Wambayan. Read each cell as an answer to a standard typological question. Compare languages in the grammar lens →
Showing 227 of 227 coded features.
Grambank
103 featuresClause and Syntax5
- both.
Order of numeral and noun in the noun phrase: 1=Numeral-Noun, 2=Noun-Numeral, 3=both orders occur.
Grambank GB024
- both
Unmarked order of S and V in intransitive clauses: 1=SV, 2=VS, 3=both.
Grambank GB130
- present
Whether constituent order is the same in main and subordinate clauses.
Grambank GB134
- absent
Whether the language has clause chaining (long strings of dependent clauses + one final finite verb).
Grambank GB150
- present
Whether there is a morphological simultaneous-vs-sequential clause distinction.
Grambank GB152
Demonstrative3
- absent
Whether demonstratives make three or more distance contrasts (e.g. near/mid/far).
Grambank GB035
- absent
Whether demonstratives encode an elevation distinction (up-here vs down-there).
Grambank GB036
- absent
Whether demonstratives encode a visible-vs-nonvisible distinction.
Grambank GB037
Nominal26
- absent
Whether the language has a definite or specific article (a grammatical word like English 'the').
Grambank GB020
- absent
Whether indefinite nominals commonly take an indefinite article (like English 'a/an').
Grambank GB021
- absent
Whether an article, if present, comes before the noun (prenominal).
Grambank GB022
- absent
Whether an article, if present, comes after the noun (postnominal).
Grambank GB023
- both.
Order of an adnominal demonstrative ('this/that') and noun: 1=Dem-Noun, 2=Noun-Dem, 3=both.
Grambank GB025
- present
Whether adjective-like property words can be separated from their noun (occur discontinuously).
Grambank GB026
- present
Whether independent 3rd-person pronouns mark a gender distinction (he vs she).
Grambank GB030
- present
Whether every person category has a dual (or unit-augmented) form in addition to plural.
Grambank GB031
- absent
Whether the language has demonstrative classifiers.
Grambank GB038
- present
Whether there is productive morphological dual marking on nouns.
Grambank GB043
- present
Whether there is productive morphological plural marking on nouns.
Grambank GB044
- absent
Whether there is an associative plural marker ('X and those associated with X').
Grambank GB046
- present
Whether an action/state noun can be productively derived from a verb (e.g. 'run' -> 'running').
Grambank GB047
- present
Whether an agent noun can be productively derived from a verb (e.g. 'teach' -> 'teacher').
Grambank GB048
- present
Whether an object/result noun can be productively derived from a verb.
Grambank GB049
- present
Whether the gender/noun-class system uses biological sex as a class-assignment factor.
Grambank GB051
- absent
Whether the gender/noun-class system uses shape as a class-assignment factor.
Grambank GB052
- present
Whether the gender/noun-class system uses animacy as a class-assignment factor.
Grambank GB053
- absent
Whether the gender/noun-class system uses plant status as a class-assignment factor.
Grambank GB054
- absent
Whether the language has numeral classifiers (a sortal element required when counting).
Grambank GB057
- absent
Whether the language has possessive classifiers.
Grambank GB058
- present
Whether the possessive construction differs for alienable vs inalienable nouns (e.g. 'my dog' vs 'my hand').
Grambank GB059
- both
Unmarked order of possessor noun and possessed noun: 1=Possessor-Possessed, 2=Possessed-Possessor, 3=both.
Grambank GB065
- present
Whether verbs undergo reduplication.
Grambank GB158
- present
Whether nouns undergo reduplication.
Grambank GB159
- absent
Whether words other than verbs or nouns undergo reduplication.
Grambank GB160
Other12
- present
Whether noun-conjoining ('X and Y') and comitative ('X with Y') use different markers.
Grambank GB027
- absent
Whether noun number markers show nonphonological (lexically/grammatically conditioned) allomorphy.
Grambank GB039
- absent
Whether more than three nouns are suppletive for number (a different root for singular vs plural).
Grambank GB041
- absent
Whether there is productive overt singular marking on nouns.
Grambank GB042
- present
Whether oblique (non-core) non-pronominal NPs carry morphological case.
Grambank GB072
- absent
Whether the language has prepositions.
Grambank GB074
- absent
Whether the language has postpositions.
Grambank GB075
- absent
Whether core-argument marking varies by TAM (tense/aspect/mood) — e.g. split by tense.
Grambank GB095
- absent
Whether core-argument marking varies by person (e.g. a person-based split in ergativity).
Grambank GB098
- present
Whether the recipient of a ditransitive ('give') can be marked like a monotransitive object.
Grambank GB105
- present
Whether clausal objects sit in the same position as nominal objects.
Grambank GB135
- absent
Whether there is a morphosyntactic distinction between controlled and uncontrolled events/states.
Grambank GB146
Pronoun1
- present
Whether the pronoun system distinguishes inclusive ('we incl. you') from exclusive ('we excl. you').
Grambank GB028
Verb and Valency56
- absent
Whether core adjectives behave like verbs when used as a predicate ('the dog is big' patterns like 'the dog runs').
Grambank GB068
- absent
Whether attributive adjectives require the same morphology as verbs.
Grambank GB069
- present
Whether non-pronominal core arguments (S/A/P) carry morphological case.
Grambank GB070
- present
Whether pronominal core arguments (S/A/P) carry morphological case.
Grambank GB071
- present
Whether independent oblique personal pronouns carry morphological case.
Grambank GB073
- absent
Whether verbs take prefixes/proclitics beyond pure S/A/P agreement (incl. portmanteau agreement+TAM).
Grambank GB079
- present
Whether verbs take suffixes/enclitics beyond pure S/A/P agreement (incl. portmanteau agreement+TAM).
Grambank GB080
- absent
Whether verbs show productive infixation (a morpheme inserted inside the root).
Grambank GB081
- absent
Whether present tense is overtly marked on the verb.
Grambank GB082
- absent
Whether there is a dedicated overt past-tense marker on the verb.
Grambank GB083
- present
Whether there is a dedicated overt future-tense marker on the verb.
Grambank GB084
- present
Whether verbs make a perfective-vs-imperfective aspect distinction morphologically.
Grambank GB086
- absent
Whether the S (intransitive subject) can be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB089
- absent
Whether the S (intransitive subject) can be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB090
- absent
Whether the A (transitive subject) can be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB091
- absent
Whether the A (transitive subject) can be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB092
- absent
Whether the P (transitive object) can be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB093
- absent
Whether the P (transitive object) can be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb.
Grambank GB094
- absent
Whether core-argument marking varies by verb class.
Grambank GB096
- absent
Whether verb stems change according to the person of a core participant.
Grambank GB099
- absent
Whether there is a benefactive applicative marker on the verb ('do X for someone').
Grambank GB103
- absent
Whether there is an instrumental applicative marker on the verb ('do X with an instrument').
Grambank GB104
- absent
Whether standard negation can be marked by an affix, clitic, or verb modification.
Grambank GB107
- absent
Whether verbs carry directional or locative morphology (associated-motion-type marking).
Grambank GB108
- absent
Whether verbs are suppletive for participant number (different root for singular vs plural participant).
Grambank GB109
- absent
Whether verbs are suppletive for tense or aspect.
Grambank GB110
- present
Whether verbs fall into conjugation classes.
Grambank GB111
- present
Whether there are verbal affixes/clitics that transitivize intransitive verbs (causative-like).
Grambank GB113
- present
Whether there is a bound (affixal) reflexive marker on the verb.
Grambank GB114
- present
Whether there is a bound (affixal) reciprocal marker on the verb.
Grambank GB115
- absent
Whether verbs classify the shape/size/consistency of absolutive arguments (e.g. via incorporated nouns or suppletion).
Grambank GB116
- absent
Whether there is a copula for predicate nominals ('X is a Y').
Grambank GB117
- present
Whether there are serial verb constructions (two+ verbs in one clause without a linker).
Grambank GB118
- absent
Whether mood can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB119
- absent
Whether aspect can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB120
- absent
Whether tense can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.
Grambank GB121
- absent
Whether verb compounding is a regular process.
Grambank GB122
- absent
Whether there are verb-adjunct (light-verb / coverb) constructions.
Grambank GB123
- absent
Whether noun incorporation into the verb is a productive intransitivizing process.
Grambank GB124
- absent
Whether the language has a dedicated existential verb ('there is').
Grambank GB126
- absent
Whether posture verbs ('lie' vs 'stand' vs 'sit') are obligatorily chosen by an inanimate's shape/position.
Grambank GB127
- absent
Whether the language has a small closed set of verb roots (about 100 or fewer).
Grambank GB129
- present
Whether the unmarked transitive constituent order is verb-initial.
Grambank GB131
- present
Whether the unmarked transitive constituent order is verb-medial.
Grambank GB132
- present
Whether the unmarked transitive constituent order is verb-final.
Grambank GB133
- absent
Whether the order of core (S/A/P) constituents is fixed.
Grambank GB136
- absent
Whether standard negation can be marked clause-finally.
Grambank GB137
- present
Whether standard negation can be marked clause-initially.
Grambank GB138
- present
Whether prohibitive (negative imperative) negation differs from declarative negation.
Grambank GB139
- absent
Whether one negator covers verbal, locational, existential and nominal predication alike.
Grambank GB140
- absent
Whether there is a morphological passive marked on the lexical verb.
Grambank GB147
- absent
Whether there is a morphological antipassive marked on the lexical verb.
Grambank GB148
- absent
Whether there is a morphological inverse marker on the verb.
Grambank GB149
- present
Whether there is a switch-reference marker (signals same/different subject across clauses).
Grambank GB151
- absent
Whether causatives are formed by affixes/clitics on the verb.
Grambank GB155
- absent
Whether there is a causative built from a grammaticalized verb 'to say'.
Grambank GB156
WALS
86 featuresComplex Sentences4
- Subject is left implicit
'Want' Complement Subjects
WALS 124A
- Deranked
Purpose Clauses
WALS 125A
- Balanced
'When' Clauses
WALS 126A
- Balanced
Reason Clauses
WALS 127A
Lexicon4
- Different
Hand and Arm
WALS 129A
- Identical
Finger and Hand
WALS 130A
- Hunter-gatherers
Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand'
WALS 130B
- Others
Tea
WALS 138A
Morphology3
- Strongly suffixing
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
WALS 26A
- Core cases only
Case Syncretism
WALS 28A
- Not syncretic
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
WALS 29A
Nominal Categories18
- Four
Number of Genders
WALS 30A
- Sex-based
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
WALS 31A
- Semantic
Systems of Gender Assignment
WALS 32A
- All nouns, always optional
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
WALS 34A
- Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
WALS 35A
- Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
WALS 39A
- No person marking
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
WALS 40A
- Two-way contrast
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
WALS 41A
- Identical
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
WALS 42A
- Related for all demonstratives
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
WALS 43A
- No gender distinctions
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
WALS 44A
- No politeness distinction
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
WALS 45A
- Interrogative-based
Indefinite Pronouns
WALS 46A
- Differentiated
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
WALS 47A
- No adpositions
Person Marking on Adpositions
WALS 48A
- 8-9 cases
Number of Cases
WALS 49A
- Qualitatively asymmetrical
Asymmetrical Case-Marking
WALS 50A
- Case suffixes
Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Nominal Syntax1
- No action nominals
Action Nominal Constructions
WALS 62A
Phonology19
- Contrast absent
Vowel Nasalization
WALS 10A
- None
Front Rounded Vowels
WALS 11A
- Moderately complex
Syllable Structure
WALS 12A
- No tones
Tone
WALS 13A
- No fixed stress
Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
- Left-edge: First or second
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
- Long vowel
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
- Trochaic
Rhythm Types
WALS 17A
- No fricatives
Absence of Common Consonants
WALS 18A
- None
Presence of Uncommon Consonants
WALS 19A
- Moderately small
Consonant Inventories
WALS 1A
- Small (2-4)
Vowel Quality Inventories
WALS 2A
- Moderately high
Consonant-Vowel Ratio
WALS 3A
- No voicing contrast
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
WALS 4A
- Other
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
WALS 5A
- None
Uvular Consonants
WALS 6A
- No glottalized consonants
Glottalized Consonants
WALS 7A
- /l/, no obstruent laterals
Lateral Consonants
WALS 8A
- Initial velar nasal
The Velar Nasal
WALS 9A
Simple Clauses19
- Split
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
WALS 100A
- Subject pronouns in different position
Expression of Pronominal Subjects
WALS 101A
- Both the A and P arguments
Verbal Person Marking
WALS 102A
- No zero realization
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
WALS 103A
- A precedes P
Order of Person Markers on the Verb
WALS 104A
- Double-object construction
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
WALS 105A
- Identical to reflexive
Reciprocal Constructions
WALS 106A
- Absent
Passive Constructions
WALS 107A
- No antipassive
Antipassive Constructions
WALS 108A
- no antipassive
Productivity of the Antipassive Construction
WALS 108B
- Non-benefactive object; only intransitive
Applicative Constructions
WALS 109A
- Locative
Other Roles of Applied Objects
WALS 109B
- Purposive but no sequential
Periphrastic Causative Constructions
WALS 110A
- Morphological but no compound
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
WALS 111A
- Negative particle
Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
- Both
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
WALS 113A
- A/NonReal
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
WALS 114A
- Ergative - absolutive
Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
WALS 98A
- Nominative - accusative (standard)
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
WALS 99A
Verbal Categories8
- Tense-aspect suffixes
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
- No second-person imperatives
The Morphological Imperative
WALS 70A
- Inflectional optative absent
The Optative
WALS 73A
- Other kinds of markers
Situational Possibility
WALS 74A
- Affixes on verbs
Epistemic Possibility
WALS 75A
- No overlap
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
WALS 76A
- No grammatical evidentials
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
WALS 77A
- No grammatical evidentials
Coding of Evidentiality
WALS 78A
Word order10
- NegV
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb
WALS 143A
- NegV
Preverbal Negative Morphemes
WALS 143E
- None
Postverbal Negative Morphemes
WALS 143F
- None
Minor morphological means of signaling negation
WALS 143G
- Other
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb
WALS 144A
- Beginning, not immed preverbal
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb
WALS 144B
- No dominant order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
- No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
- VO
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
- Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
AUS extension
38 featuresAlignment5
- ergative
Case-marking alignment of full (non-pronominal) noun phrases.
AUS extension AUX001
- accusative
Case-marking alignment of independent personal pronouns.
AUS extension AUX002
- split
Alignment of person marking (agreement/bound pronouns) on the verb.
AUS extension AUX003
- yes
Whether full nouns and pronouns use DIFFERENT case alignments (e.g. nouns ergative but pronouns nominative-accusative) — the classic Australian split.
AUS extension AUX004
- yes
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
Case3
- 8-9
Size of the morphological case inventory on nouns.
AUS extension AUX006
- suffix
Where case marking sits: suffix, prefix, clitic, tone, stem change.
AUS extension AUX007
- both
Whether both non-pronominal core arguments and pronominal core arguments carry case (so case can differ by word class).
AUS extension AUX008
Demonstrative1
- two
Number of distance contrasts (2, 3+ deictic terms).
AUS extension AUX023
Gender2
- four
Count of gender / noun-class categories.
AUS extension AUX021
- sex-based
Whether the gender system is sex-based or non-sex-based (or absent).
AUS extension AUX022
Negation2
- particle
How declarative clauses are negated: affix, particle, negative auxiliary, etc.
AUS extension AUX036
- yes
Whether the prohibitive (negative imperative) uses a different construction from declarative negation.
AUS extension AUX037
Number2
- yes
Productive morphological dual on nouns.
AUS extension AUX014
- person-number-stem+pron-plural
How number is built into independent personal pronouns.
AUS extension AUX018
Pronoun4
- yes
Whether 1st-person non-singular distinguishes inclusive ('we incl. you') from exclusive.
AUS extension AUX019
- no-marking
Whether the inclusive/exclusive distinction also appears in verbal person marking.
AUS extension AUX020
- yes
Whether independent 3rd-person pronouns mark gender (he/she).
AUS extension AUX024
- yes
Whether interrogatives ('who/what') double as indefinites ('someone/something') — an 'ignorative' series. Partially derivable from WALS Indefinite Pronouns (interrogative-based).
AUS extension AUX051
Pronoun-Marking4
- free-different-position
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
- no
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
Whether the transitive subject (A) is cross-referenced by a bound marker on the verb.
AUS extension AUX012
- no
Whether the transitive object (P) is cross-referenced by a bound marker on the verb.
AUS extension AUX013
Syntax3
- no-dominant-order
Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).
AUS extension AUX038
- yes
A verb marker signalling same/different subject across clauses.
AUS extension AUX040
- no
Chains of dependent (medial) clauses closed by one finite verb.
AUS extension AUX041
Valency5
- yes
A phonologically bound reflexive marker on the verb (e.g. Kuku Yalanji -ji-).
AUS extension AUX031
- yes
A phonologically bound reciprocal marker on the verb (e.g. Kuku Yalanji -wa-).
AUS extension AUX032
- identical
Whether reciprocal marking is identical to, or distinct from, reflexive marking.
AUS extension AUX033
- no
A morphological antipassive on the lexical verb (demotes P; salient in ergative languages).
AUS extension AUX034
- no
Whether causatives are formed by an affix/clitic on the verb.
AUS extension AUX035
Verb7
- yes
Whether verbs fall into conjugation classes (as in most Pama-Nyungan languages).
AUS extension AUX025
- suffix
Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.
AUS extension AUX026
- no
Directional or locative morphology on the verb. NOTE: true associated-motion systems (coming/going while V-ing) are a fine Australianist category that open datasets do not isolate; this uses Grambank's broader directional/locative-on-verb feature as a proxy.
AUS extension AUX028
- no
Whether a verb uses a different root for singular vs plural participant (e.g. 'go.sg' vs 'go.pl').
AUS extension AUX029
- none
Whether grammatical evidentiality is marked, and its scope (direct/indirect).
AUS extension AUX047
- no
Whether predicates are built from an uninflecting coverb + a small closed class of inflecting light verbs (widespread in non-Pama-Nyungan Australia).
AUS extension AUX052
- no
Whether noun incorporation into the verb is a productive intransitivizing process.
AUS extension AUX053
Dictionary & lexicon
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Identifiers
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.