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Language name Lithuanian liθju��einiən
Language name Lezgian �lezɡiən
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 296
Autonym (if known and different) Lietuvos
Autonym (if known and different) lezgi
Language family Indo-European Baltic
Language family Nakho-
Daghestanian
Spoken in Lithuania
Spoken in Daghestan, Azerbaijan
Approximate number of speakers 3m
Approximate number of speakers 400k
Writing system Roman
Writing system Cyrillic
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress second syllable of the root
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Contains following rare uvular; ejective; contrastive labialisation
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6�length (5)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony front–back and rounding
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types dvandva; prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN
Particular formation types dvandva; prefixation; suffixation
Syntax
Word order SOV AN prepositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; nominative / accusative marking;
conjugation classes; evidentials
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; ergative / absolutive marking
conjugation classes;
Points of interest definiteness marked on adjectives
Points of interest has 18 case forms for nouns
Sources Campbell (1991), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Katzner (1977),
Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976), Wälchli (2005)
Sources Haspelmath (1993)
Luganda see Ganda
Lusatian see Sorbian