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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 254
Language name Danish �de�n�ʃ
Language name Dani
Autonym (if known and different) dansk
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Germanic
Language family Trans-New - Dani-Kwerba
Guinea
Spoken in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland
Spoken in Iriyan Jaya
Approximate number of speakers 5m
Approximate number of speakers 270k
Writing system Roman�extra letters
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress root-initial
Stress word-final
Contains following rare uvular
consonant (types)
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 12�length
Said to have how many vowels? 7�5 diphthongs
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none: stød or glottal catch replaces the Scandinavian tonal
accent in Eastern Standard Danish
Tone none
Rhythm stress timed
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; apophony
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order V2 AN prepositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order SOV NA postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender
Particular syntactic phenomena conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest reported as having only two basic colour terms
Sources Bredsdorff (1956), Campbell (1991), Diderichsen (1972),
Gordon (2002), Ruhlen (1976)
Sources Bromley (1981), Gordon (2002), Maddieson (1984),
Ruhlen (1976)