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Language name Old Church əυld ����tʃ
Slavonic slə�vɒnik
Language name Ojibwa Chippewa əυ�dʒibwei
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
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Language family Algonkian
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Spoken in Ontario (Canada)
Spoken in Moravia
Approximate number of speakers 40k
Approximate number of speakers 0
Writing system Cree syllabary
Writing system Cyrillic; Glagolitic
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 4�short (3)�nasalisation
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology polysynthetic stem-based for
verbs; word-based
for nouns
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order free free prepositions
free
Particular formation types full and partial reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order free free prepositions and
PossN postpositions
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; dual; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena noun classes
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Huntley (1993)
Points of interest
Sources Bailin & Grafstein (1991), Haspelmath et al. (2005),
Katzner (1977), Maddieson (1984), Mithun (1999),
Ruhlen (1976)
Old Ethiopic see Geez