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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 250
Language name Cornish �kɔ�n�ʃ
Language name Coeur d’Alene k��də�lein
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Celtic
Language family Salishan
Spoken in Cornwall (UK)
Spoken in Idaho (USA)
Approximate number of speakers died out in about 1800, but is being revived
Approximate number of speakers �5
Writing system Roman
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-penultimate
Stress weight-based system
Contains following rare nasalised bilabial fricative
consonant (types)
Contains following rare uvular, pharyngeal, ejective, labialised uvulars and
consonant (types) pharyngeals
Said to have how many vowels? 6�length (5)�7 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm stress-timed
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony vowels restricted in terms of following consonants
Morphology fusional stem-based verbs;
word- based
nouns
Morphology polysynthetic
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; infix; partial prefixed reduplication;
incorporation
Particular formation types infix (dialectally variable); suffix; apophony
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena ergative / absolutive marking; morphological aspect
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; dual; inflected prepositions
Points of interest
Points of interest initial mutation
Sources Doak (1997)
Sources George (1993), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Wmffre (1998b)