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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 230
Language name Albanian �l�be�n�ən
Language name Akan Twi ə�k�n
Autonym (if known and different) Gjuha Shqipe
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European
Language family Niger-Congo Kwa
Spoken in Albania, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece
Spoken in Ghana
Approximate number of speakers 5m
Approximate number of speakers 8m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-penultimate
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 7
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 8�nasality (5)�long nasal (2)
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types front rounded
Tone none
Tone register, terrace tone
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony ATR
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
and fusional
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular formation types prefix; prefixed partial reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO NA postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; nominative/accusative marking; evidentials
Particular syntactic phenomena conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Buchholz & Fiedler (1987), Campbell (1991), Gordon
(2002), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Maddieson (1984)
Sources Campbell (1991), Clements (2000), Maddieson (1984)