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Pama-Nyungan

Warlmanpa

Autonym candidate: Albura unverified — from alt-names· 40 name candidates recorded

Comprehensivemoribund· AES 4LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-18.9490, 133.8620

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

43 coded · 1 unknown

41 Grambank — 44 coded features in total across 42 Grambank, 2 AUS extension.

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

Showing 44 of 44 coded features.

Grambank

42 features
Clause and Syntax10

  • Whether collective 'all' and distributive 'every' quantifiers differ in form or position.

    Grambank GB204

    absent

  • Whether yes/no questions can be marked by intonation alone.

    Grambank GB257

    present

  • Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a special word order.

    Grambank GB260

    absent

  • Whether the comparative uses a form that elsewhere means 'surpass/exceed'.

    Grambank GB265

    absent

  • Whether the comparative marks the standard with a form that elsewhere is locational ('from/at').

    Grambank GB266

    absent

  • Whether comparatives can be expressed by two conjoined clauses ('X is big, Y is small').

    Grambank GB270

    present

  • Whether the comparative standard marker has neither a locational nor a 'surpass' source.

    Grambank GB273

    absent

  • Whether there is a bound comparative degree marker on the property word.

    Grambank GB275

    absent

  • Whether there is a free comparative degree marker (like 'more') modifying the property word.

    Grambank GB276

    absent

  • Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a V-not-V construction.

    Grambank GB297

    absent
Demonstrative3

  • Whether demonstratives make three or more distance contrasts (e.g. near/mid/far).

    Grambank GB035

    present

  • Whether demonstratives encode an elevation distinction (up-here vs down-there).

    Grambank GB036

    absent

  • Whether demonstratives encode a visible-vs-nonvisible distinction.

    Grambank GB037

    absent
Nominal18

  • 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

  • Order of an adnominal demonstrative ('this/that') and noun: 1=Dem-Noun, 2=Noun-Dem, 3=both.

    Grambank GB025

    unknown

  • 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

    absent

  • 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 an article can agree with its noun in gender/noun class.

    Grambank GB172

    absent

  • Order of the collective 'all' quantifier and noun: 0=no such quantifier, 1=Q-N, 2=N-Q, 3=both.

    Grambank GB203

    no UQ

  • Whether there is a clause-initial yes/no question particle.

    Grambank GB262

    present

  • Whether there is a clause-final yes/no question particle.

    Grambank GB263

    absent

  • Whether there is a yes/no question particle sitting neither clause-initially nor clause-finally.

    Grambank GB264

    absent

  • Whether yes/no questions can be marked by a question particle plus verbal morphology.

    Grambank GB285

    absent

  • Whether standard negation can be marked by a non-inflecting negative particle.

    Grambank GB299

    present

  • Whether there is a large class of nouns whose gender/class is not phonologically or semantically predictable.

    Grambank GB321

    absent

  • Whether mood can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.

    Grambank GB519

    present

  • Whether aspect can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.

    Grambank GB520

    present

  • Whether tense can be marked by a non-inflecting particle.

    Grambank GB521

    absent
Other1

  • Whether noun number markers show nonphonological (lexically/grammatically conditioned) allomorphy.

    Grambank GB039

    absent
Verb and Valency10

  • Whether present tense is overtly marked on the verb.

    Grambank GB082

    present

  • 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 mood can be marked by an inflecting auxiliary verb.

    Grambank GB119

    present

  • 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 prohibitive (negative imperative) negation differs from declarative negation.

    Grambank GB139

    present

  • Whether one negator covers verbal, locational, existential and nominal predication alike.

    Grambank GB140

    present

  • Whether standard negation can be marked by an inflecting negative auxiliary verb.

    Grambank GB298

    absent

  • Whether there is dedicated overt mood marking on the verb.

    Grambank GB312

    absent

AUS extension

2 features
Demonstrative1

  • Number of distance contrasts (2, 3+ deictic terms).

    AUS extension AUX023

    three-plus
Negation1

  • Whether the prohibitive (negative imperative) uses a different construction from declarative negation.

    AUS extension AUX037

    yes

Dictionary & lexicon

Open lexical resource available — 3 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.

English Wiktionary — Category:Warlmanpa lemmas

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree
Divergence from nearest relative
~1,106 yr BP
95% HPD 708–1,603 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 warl1255ISO 639-3 wrlAUSTLANG C17

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.