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267 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Georgian �dʒɔ�dʒən
Language name Geez Ge’ez, Giiz, �ɡi�ez
Old Ethiopic
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Caucasian Southern
Caucasian
Autonym (if known and different) Gə�əz [� represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative]
Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic
Spoken in Georgia
Spoken in Ethiopia
Approximate number of speakers 3.5m
Approximate number of speakers extinct
Writing system Mxedruli
Writing system Ethiopic syllabary
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-antepenultimate
Stress
Contains following rare uvular, ejective
consonant (types)
Contains following rare pharyngeal, ejective
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�1 overshort
Said to have how many vowels? 7
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types dvandva; prefix; suffix; synaffix; apophony
Particular formation types prefix; root-and-pattern; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV and SVO AN postpositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order VSO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative / accusative
marking
Points of interest allows 6-consonant clusters word-initially; tense–
mood–aspect paradigms called ‘screeves’
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002), Harris (2003),
Haspelmath et al. (2005), Hewitt (1995),
Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976), Wälchli (2005)
Sources Campbell (1991), Ruhlen (1976), Weninger (1993)