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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 294
Language name Latin �l�tin
Language name Laotian Lao �laυʃən
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Italic
Language family Tai Kam-Tai
Spoken in Italy (and throughout the Roman Empire)
Spoken in Laos, Thailand
Approximate number of speakers 0
Approximate number of speakers 10m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Tua Lao
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-penultimate or antepenultimate
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�length
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9�length�3 diphthongs (long and short)
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types back unrounded
Tone none
Tone contour
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology isolating word-based
Particular formation types suffix
Particular formation types full reduplication
Syntax
Word order SOV (but NA prepositions
variable) PossN
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena classifiers; alienable / inalienable possession
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Vincent (1988)
Sources Campbell (1991), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Ruhlen (1976)
Lapp, Lappish see Saami