Laurie Bauer - WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here

251 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Croatian Serbo-Croat krəυ�ei�ən
Language name Cree kri�
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different) hahiyawāwak
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Language family Algonkian Cree
Spoken in Croatia, Montenegro
Spoken in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan (Canada)
Approximate number of speakers 10m
Approximate number of speakers 60k
Writing system Roman
Writing system its own syllabary
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress word-antepenultimate
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�length
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 7
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology polysynthetic
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Particular formation types suffix; synaffix
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN and NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative / accusative
marking; conjugation classes
Syntax
Word order SVO AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena inclusive / exclusive 1st plural; noun classes; obviative
Points of interest see also Serbian
Points of interest
Sources De Bray (1980), Browne (1993)
Sources Haspelmath et al. (2005), Mithun (1999), Ruhlen (1976)