Laurie Bauer - WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here

305 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Meithei �meitei
Language name Mazateco Mazatec m�zə�tekəυ
Autonym (if known and different) Meitheirón
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman
Language family Oto-Manguean Popolocan
Spoken in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Spoken in Mexico
Approximate number of speakers 1.3m
Approximate number of speakers 85k
Writing system Meithei Mayek (a syllabary) or Bengali script
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress word-final
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 4�nasalisation
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone register
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Morphology polysynthetic word-based
for nouns
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order variable AN (NA) postpositions
PossN
Particular formation types incorporation; prefix
Syntax
Word order VOS NA prepositions
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; dual; evidentials
Particular syntactic phenomena classifiers
Points of interest
Sources Chelliah (1997), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Katzner (1977)
Points of interest
Sources Gordon (2002), Haspelmath et al. (2005), Katzner (1977),
Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976), Yip (2002)