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Mangarrayi-Maran

Wandarang

Autonym candidate: Wamdarang unverified — from alt-names· 8 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-14.2996, 135.7050

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

47 coded · 0 unknown

40 WALS — 47 coded features in total across 40 WALS, 7 AUS extension.

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

Showing 47 of 47 coded features.

WALS

40 features
Complex Sentences1

  • Relativization on Subjects

    WALS 122A

    Gap
Lexicon4

  • 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
Morphology5

  • Locus of Marking in the Clause

    WALS 23A

    Head marking

  • Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases

    WALS 24A

    Head marking

  • Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology

    WALS 25A

    Head-marking

  • Zero Marking of A and P Arguments

    WALS 25B

    Non-zero marking

  • Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology

    WALS 26A

    Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories5

  • Coding of Nominal Plurality

    WALS 33A

    Plural prefix

  • Indefinite Pronouns

    WALS 46A

    Interrogative-based

  • Position of Case Affixes

    WALS 51A

    Case suffixes

  • Numeral Classifiers

    WALS 55A

    Absent

  • Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes

    WALS 57A

    Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax3

  • Obligatory Possessive Inflection

    WALS 58A

    Absent

  • Number of Possessive Nouns

    WALS 58B

    None reported

  • Possessive Classification

    WALS 59A

    Two classes
Simple Clauses4

  • Negative Morphemes

    WALS 112A

    Negative affix

  • Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation

    WALS 113A

    Asymmetric

  • Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation

    WALS 114A

    A/NonReal and A/Cat

  • Polar Questions

    WALS 116A

    Interrogative intonation only
Verbal Categories1

  • Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes

    WALS 69A

    Tense-aspect suffixes
Word order17

  • Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb

    WALS 143A

    OptDoubleNeg

  • Optional Double Negation

    WALS 143C

    [Neg-V(-Neg)]

  • Preverbal Negative Morphemes

    WALS 143E

    [Neg-V]

  • Postverbal Negative Morphemes

    WALS 143F

    [V-Neg]

  • Minor morphological means of signaling negation

    WALS 143G

    None

  • Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb

    WALS 144A

    MorphNeg

  • The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages

    WALS 144D

    OptNeg

  • Optional Double Negation in SVO languages

    WALS 144G

    S[Neg-V(-Neg)]O

  • NegSVO Order

    WALS 144H

    No NegSVO

  • SNegVO Order

    WALS 144I

    Prefix&OptDoubleNeg

  • SVNegO Order

    WALS 144J

    Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg

  • 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 Genitive and Noun

    WALS 86A

    Noun-Genitive

  • Position of Polar Question Particles

    WALS 92A

    No question particle

AUS extension

7 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

    affix
Number1

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

    AUS extension AUX017

    prefix
Numerals1

  • Whether counting requires a sortal numeral classifier.

    AUS extension AUX044

    absent
Pronoun1

  • Whether interrogatives ('who/what') double as indefinites ('someone/something') — an 'ignorative' series. Partially derivable from WALS Indefinite Pronouns (interrogative-based).

    AUS extension AUX051

    yes
Syntax1

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

    AUS extension AUX038

    SVO
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 (N120)

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 wand1263ISO 639-3 wndAUSTLANG N120

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.