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281 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Jacaltec hɑ�kəl�tek
Language name Italian i�t�liən
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different) italiano
Language family Penutian Mayan
Language family Indo-European Romance
Spoken in Guatemala
Spoken in Italy, Switzerland
Approximate number of speakers 12k
Approximate number of speakers 55m
Writing system
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress variable in the last three syllables of the word
Contains following rare retroflex, uvular, ejective, implosive
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
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 for
verbs; wordbased
for
nouns
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO (AN) NA prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order VSO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; conjugation classes
Points of interest
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; gender; classifiers; ergative /
absolutive marking; pronouns inflect for aspect; serial
verbs; noun classes
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977), Maiden & Robustelli
(2000)
Points of interest
Sources Craig (1987), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Ruhlen (1976)