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291 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Koromfe
Language name Korean kə�ri�ən
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Niger-Congo Volta-Congo
Language family Disputed:
possibly Altaic
Spoken in Burkina Faso (W Africa)
Spoken in Korea
Approximate number of speakers
Approximate number of speakers 70m
Writing system
Writing system Korean (Hangul and Chinese characters)
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology phrase-initial
Stress none
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 10�length (8)
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types front rounded, back unrounded
Tone none
Tone none in standard varieties
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony ATR
Vowel harmony some traces remain
Morphology isolating and stem-based
fusional
Particular formation types full reduplication; suffix
Morphology agglutinative stem-based for
verbs; wordbased
for nouns
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
and
PossN postpositions
Particular formation types dvandva; partial suffixed and full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena classifiers; morphological aspect; noun classes
Points of interest
Sources Rennison (1997)
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; nominative / accusative
marking; evidentials
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Haspelmath et al. (2005),
Katzner (1977), Kim (2003), Maddieson (1984),
Sohn (1994), Wälchli (2005)