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297 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Macedonian m�sə�dəυniən
Language name Maasai Masai �mɑ�sai
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Language family Nilo-Saharan Lotuxo-Teso
Spoken in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece
Spoken in Kenya, Tanzania
Approximate number of speakers 2.5m
Approximate number of speakers 400k
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-antepenultimate
Stress word-penultimate
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Contains following rare implosive
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�length
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone register
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based in
verbs; word-based
in nouns
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; partial suffixed reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types prefixation; suffixation
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN and NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; nominative / accusative marking
Syntax
Word order VSO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena classifier; gender; nominative / accusative marking
Points of interest
Points of interest there was an ancient Indo-European language with
the same name
Sources Campbell (1991), Hollis (1970), Maddieson (1984)
Sources Friedman (1993)