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295 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Lenakel
Language name Latvian Lettish �l�tviən
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Austronesian Malayo-
Polynesian
Language family Indo-European Baltic
Spoken in Latvia
Spoken in Vanuatu
Approximate number of speakers 2.5m
Approximate number of speakers 6.5k
Writing system Roman (with diacritics)
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress word-penultimate
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6�length (5)
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based for
verbs; wordbased
for nouns
Particular formation types dvandva; prefix; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; full reduplication; suffix; synaffix
Syntax
Word order SVO AN postpositions
PossN (postpositions)
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; nominative / accusative marking;
conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; noun classes; dual and trial;
conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002), Katzner (1977),
Nau (1998), Ruhlen (1976), Wälchli (2005)
Sources Lynch (1978)
Lettish see Latvian