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Language name Warlpiri Warlbiri �wɑ�lbri
Language name Wari’
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 358
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Pama-Nyungan
Language family Chapakuran
Spoken in Central Australia
Spoken in Brazil
Approximate number of speakers 3k
Approximate number of speakers 2k
Writing system
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-inital
Stress word-final
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Contains following rare simultaneous apico-dental plosive and bilabial trills
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 3 + length
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types front rounded
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm stress-timing
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony front–back (which also involves rounding)
Vowel harmony vowel identity; also some disharmony
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Morphology isolating word-based
Particular formation types partial suffixed and full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types conversion; prefix; partial suffixed, partial infixed
and full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order free NA postpositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order VOS no adjectives prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena absolutive / ergative marking; inclusive / exclusive
1st plural; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; dual; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; inclusive / exclusive 1st plural;
inflecting preposition
Points of interest
Sources Nash (1985), Simpson (1991)
Points of interest
Sources Everett & Kern (1997), Gordon (2002)
Warlbiri see Warlpiri