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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 286
Language name Ket Yenisey Ostyak ket
Language name Kashmiri k�ʃ�miəri
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different) kə�ʃur, kəʃi�r zɑbɑ�n
Language family Paleo-Asiatic
Language family Indo-European Indic
Spoken in Siberia
Spoken in Kashmir, India, Pakistan
Approximate number of speakers 500
Approximate number of speakers 3m
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system various, including a version of Devanagari and
Sharada for religious purposes
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress no word stress
Contains following rare uvular
consonant (types)
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 7
Said to have how many vowels? 8�length�nasalisation
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone yes
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm syllable-timing
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
and fusional
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types infix; prefix; suffix
Particular formation types dvandva; prefix; full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order SVO (rather AN postpositions
free) PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena absolutive / ergative marking; nominative / accusative
marking; gender; morphological aspect; conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002), Haspelmath et al. (2005),
Katzner (1977), Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976),
Vajda (2004)
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977), Wali & Koul (1997)
Khalkha see Mongolian
Khanty see Ostyak