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Gunwinyguan

Warray

Autonym candidate: Arwur unverified — from alt-names· 18 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-13.0941, 131.2360

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

41 coded · 0 unknown

32 WALS — 41 coded features in total across 32 WALS, 9 AUS extension.

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

Showing 41 of 41 coded features.

WALS

32 features
Morphology5

  • 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

  • Reduplication

    WALS 27A

    Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories2

  • Indefinite Pronouns

    WALS 46A

    Interrogative-based

  • Position of Case Affixes

    WALS 51A

    Postpositional clitics
Nominal Syntax3

  • Obligatory Possessive Inflection

    WALS 58A

    Absent

  • Number of Possessive Nouns

    WALS 58B

    None reported

  • Possessive Classification

    WALS 59A

    No possessive classification
Phonology12

  • Front Rounded Vowels

    WALS 11A

    None

  • Tone

    WALS 13A

    No tones

  • Absence of Common Consonants

    WALS 18A

    No fricatives

  • Presence of Uncommon Consonants

    WALS 19A

    None

  • Consonant Inventories

    WALS 1A

    Moderately small

  • Vowel Quality Inventories

    WALS 2A

    Average (5-6)

  • Consonant-Vowel Ratio

    WALS 3A

    Average

  • 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
Simple Clauses3

  • Expression of Pronominal Subjects

    WALS 101A

    Subject affixes on verb

  • Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'

    WALS 105A

    Double-object construction

  • Negative Morphemes

    WALS 112A

    Negative particle
Verbal Categories1

  • Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes

    WALS 69A

    Tense-aspect prefixes
Word order6

  • 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 Object, Oblique, and Verb

    WALS 84A

    No dominant order

  • Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase

    WALS 85A

    Postpositions

  • Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase

    WALS 95A

    VO and Postpositions

AUS extension

9 features
Case1

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

    AUS extension AUX007

    postpositional-clitic
Negation1

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

    AUS extension AUX036

    particle
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
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

    SVO

  • Prepositions vs postpositions vs no dominant adpositions.

    AUS extension AUX039

    postpositions
Verb2

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

    AUS extension AUX026

    prefix

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

    AUS extension AUX030

    full-and-partial

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 (N25)

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 wara1290ISO 639-3 wrzAUSTLANG N25

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.