Warrnambool

Autonym candidate: Dhauhurtwurru unverified — from alt-names· 13 name candidates recorded

Documentedextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-38.1556, 141.5397

Provenance: glottolog

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Grammar profile

24 coded · 0 unknown

19 WALS — 24 coded features in total across 19 WALS, 5 AUS extension.

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

Showing 24 of 24 coded features.

WALS

19 features

Morphology1

Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
WALS 26A
Strongly suffixing

Nominal Categories2

Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
WALS 57A
Possessive suffixes

Simple Clauses2

Expression of Pronominal Subjects
WALS 101A
Subject clitics on variable host
Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
Negative particle

Verbal Categories1

Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
WALS 69A
Tense-aspect suffixes

Word order13

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
The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages
WALS 144T
NegV & VS & VO
Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative
WALS 144V
Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg
Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object
WALS 144W
None
Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative
WALS 144X
No clause-final neg
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
VS
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
VO
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
Initial interrogative phrase

AUS extension

5 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
particle

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
clitic-variable-host
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
yes

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 (S20, S25, S75)

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~272 yr BP

95% HPD 104–482 BP

Dates the LANGUAGE lineage (Bouckaert 2018 BEAST tree), NOT a population arrival.

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Codes & sources

Identifiers

Glottolog warr1257ISO 639-3 gjmAUSTLANG S20 AUSTLANG S25 AUSTLANG S75

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)
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, 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: Documented.