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253 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Dan Gio, Yakuba d�n
Language name Dakota də�kəυtə
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Niger-Congo Eastern Mande
Language family Macro-Siouan Siouan
Spoken in Ivory Coast
Spoken in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska (USA)
Approximate number of speakers 300k
Approximate number of speakers 10k
Writing system
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress second-syllable
Contains following rare implosive
consonant (types)
Contains following rare ejective (including fricative)
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9�nasalisation (8)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�nasalisation (3)
Marked vowel types back unrounded
Marked vowel types
Tone register
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative
Morphology agglutinative word-based
and fusional
Particular formation types suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV NA postpositions
PossN
Particular formation types incorporation; infix; prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV NA postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena
Points of interest
Sources Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976)
Particular syntactic phenomena noun classes
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Maddieson
(1984), Ruhlen (1976)