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259 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Erromangan Sye
Language name English ��ŋɡl�ʃ
Autonym (if known and different) Nam Eromaga
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian
Language family Indo-European Germanic
Spoken in Vanuatu
Approximate number of speakers 1.4k
Spoken in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand,
West Indies, South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria,
Liberia, India, Singapore, etc.
Writing system Roman
Approximate number of speakers 350m
Phonetics/phonology
Writing system Roman
Stress word-penultimate
Phonetics/phonology
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Stress variable
Marked vowel types
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? approx. 20 including diphthongs, depending on variety
Tone none
Marked vowel types
Rhythm no information
Tone none
Vowel harmony none
Rhythm stress-timed
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
and fusional
Vowel harmony none
Particular formation types prefix; full reduplication; suffix; synaffix
Morphology isolating and word-based
agglutinative
and fusional
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Particular syntactic phenomena inclusive / exclusive 1st plural; morphological
aspect; noun classes; conjugation classes
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN
Points of interest
Particular syntactic phenomena
Sources Crowley (1998)
Points of interest
Erse see Irish
Sources Campbell (1991), Ruhlen (1976)