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Language name Hixkaryana �hiʃk��rjɑ�nə
Language name Hittite �hitait
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 276
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Ge-Pano-Carib Macro-Carib
Language family Indo-European Anatolian
Spoken in Northern Brazil
Spoken in second century bce round modern Kültepe in Turkey
Approximate number of speakers 120
Approximate number of speakers
Writing system Roman
Writing system cuneiform syllabary and hieroglyphics
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-final
Stress variable, probably quality-based
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Contains following rare ‘laryngeals’ whose precise quality is unknown
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Said to have how many vowels? 4�length
Marked vowel types back unrounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony front–back
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative and stem-based
fusional
Morphology fusional word-based
Particular formation types incorporation; prefix; suffix; synaffix
Particular formation types infix; prefix; partial prefixed reduplication; suffix;
apophony
Syntax
Syntax
Word order OVS NA (see ‘points of postpositions
interest’) PossN
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena inclusive / exclusive 1st plural; morphological aspect;
conjugation classes; present vs. past possession
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative / accusative
marking but with some ergativity; conjugation class; serial
verbs
Points of interest the first OVS language described; although this language
does not have adjectives as a class, modifiers follow the
nouns
Points of interest
Sources Luraghi (1990, 1997), Watkins (2004)
Sources Derbyshire (1979)