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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 308
Language name Mohawk �məυhɔ�k
Language name Miya
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different) və`nɑ mǐj
Language family Iroquoian Mohawk-Oneida
Language family Chadic North Bauchi
Spoken in Quebec, Ontario (Canada)
Spoken in Bauchi State (Nigeria)
Approximate number of speakers 350
Approximate number of speakers 5k
Writing system
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-penultimate
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 3
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone register
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology polysynthetic stem-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; incorporation
Particular formation types infix; prefix; partial prefixed and partial suffixed
and full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order free NA (see ‘points of postpositions
interest’) PossN
Syntax
Word order SVO (VOS) NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; alienable /
inalienable possession
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; conjugation classes
Points of interest no labial consonants, though has labial-velars; no separate
class of adjectives
Points of interest
Sources Schuh (1998)
Sources Baker (1996), Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002),
Katzner (1977), Mithun (1999), Yip (2002)