Western Victoria

No autonym candidate recorded — we do not assert a name we cannot source.

Documentedextinct· AES 6LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-34.1383, 143.6694

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

58 coded · 0 unknown

73 WALS — 58 coded features in total across 52 WALS, 6 AUS extension.

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

Showing 58 of 58 coded features.

WALS

52 features

Lexicon6

Hand and Arm
WALS 129A
Different
Finger and Hand
WALS 130A
Different
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

Morphology8

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
WALS 20A
Exclusively concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
WALS 21A
Monoexponential case
Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection
WALS 21B
monoexponential TAM
Locus of Marking in the Clause
WALS 23A
Double marking
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
WALS 24A
Double marking
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
WALS 25A
Double-marking
Zero Marking of A and P Arguments
WALS 25B
Non-zero marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
WALS 26A
Strongly suffixing

Nominal Categories5

Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
WALS 34A
No nominal plural
Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan
WALS 39B
Inclusive and exclusive differentiated
Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Case suffixes
Numeral Classifiers
WALS 55A
Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
WALS 57A
Possessive suffixes

Nominal Syntax3

Obligatory Possessive Inflection
WALS 58A
Absent
Number of Possessive Nouns
WALS 58B
None reported
Possessive Classification
WALS 59A
Two classes

Phonology4

Fixed Stress Locations
WALS 14A
No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress
WALS 15A
Left-edge: First or second
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
WALS 16A
Prominence
Rhythm Types
WALS 17A
Trochaic

Simple Clauses2

Negative Morphemes
WALS 112A
Negative particle
Polar Questions
WALS 116A
Interrogative intonation only

Verbal Categories1

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

Word order23

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
NegVOS
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
NegVOS
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, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
VOS
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
VS
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
WALS 84A
VOX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 85A
No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun
WALS 86A
Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective
WALS 91A
Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
WALS 93A
Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS 95A
Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
VO and AdjN

AUS extension

6 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

Numerals1

Whether counting requires a sortal numeral classifier.
AUS extension AUX044
absent

Syntax2

Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).
AUS extension AUX038
VOS
Prepositions vs postpositions vs no dominant adpositions.
AUS extension AUX039
no-dominant-order

Verb1

Where TAM inflection sits on the verb: prefix, suffix, tone, mixed, none.
AUS extension AUX026
suffix

Dictionary & lexicon

No digital lexical data located yet. No dictionary, wordlist or open resource has been found for this languoid. A visible gap — not a broken page.

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree

Divergence from nearest relative

~863 yr BP

95% HPD 416–1,381 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 west2443

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)
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, classification chain, coordinates real, coordinates any, endangerment, grammar profile, deep time dated. 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.