Wik-Ngathana

Autonym candidate: Lenga wik-ngathana unverified — from alt-names· 29 name candidates recorded

Documentedshifting· AES 3Located

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-13.8691, 141.5320

Provenance: glottolog

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

Grammar profile

11 coded · 0 unknown

9 WALS — 11 coded features in total across 9 WALS, 2 AUS extension.

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

Showing 11 of 11 coded features.

WALS

9 features

Nominal Categories1

Position of Case Affixes
WALS 51A
Case suffixes

Simple Clauses1

Polar Questions
WALS 116A
Question particle

Word order7

Order of Subject, Object and Verb
WALS 81A
OSV
Order of Subject and Verb
WALS 82A
SV
Order of Object and Verb
WALS 83A
OV
Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 87A
Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun
WALS 88A
Noun-Demonstrative
Position of Polar Question Particles
WALS 92A
Final
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
WALS 97A
OV and NAdj

AUS extension

2 features

Case1

Where case marking sits: suffix, prefix, clitic, tone, stem change.
AUS extension AUX007
suffix

Syntax1

Dominant order of subject, object and verb (often 'no dominant order' in free-word-order Australian languages).
AUS extension AUX038
OSV

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 (Y54, Y56)

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 wikn1245ISO 639-3 wigAUSTLANG Y54 AUSTLANG Y56

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.