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Language name Pa’anci Pa’a
Language name Ostyak Khanty �ɒsti�k
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 318
Autonym (if known and different) fuucəka
Autonym (if known and different) Hanti
Language family Afro-Asiatic West Chadic
Language family Uralic Finno-Ugric
Spoken in Nigeria
Spoken in Former USSR
Approximate number of speakers 20k
Approximate number of speakers 15k
Writing system
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress word-initial
Contains following rare ejective
consonant (types)
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5�length�2 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 8�4 overshort
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types back unrounded
Tone register
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm stress-timing
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony front–back harmony
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types partial prefixed and full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types dvandva; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV AN (NA) prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect
Particular syntactic phenomena nominative / accusative marking; dual;
conjugation classes
Points of interest possessive pronouns marked for gender of possessor
and of possessee
Points of interest Note that Ostyak is also an alternative name for Ket.
Sources Skinner (1979)
Sources Collinder (1957), Maddieson (1984), Rédei (1965),
Ruhlen (1976), Wälchli (2005)
Ostyak see Ket
Pa’a see Pa’anci