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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 234
Language name Archi ɑ��tʃi�
Language name Aramaic �rə�meiik
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Caucasian N–NE Lezghian
Language family Afro-Asiatic North Semitic
Spoken in Daghestan
Spoken in Iran
Approximate number of speakers 850
Approximate number of speakers 23k
Writing system unwritten
Writing system Aramaic (its own form of Semitic script)
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress word-final
Contains following rare uvular, pharyngeal
consonant (types)
Contains following rare uvular, pharyngeal, pharyngealised consonants
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 8
Said to have how many vowels? 3
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional and word-based
polysynthetic
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types root-and-pattern; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; partial suffixed reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV postpositions /
case affixes
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena gender
Points of interest two types of plural formation
Points of interest over 1.5m word forms in a verbal paradigm
Sources Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002), Ruhlen (1976)
Sources Kibrik (1998), Ruhlen (1976)
Aranda see Arrernte