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323 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Pomo �pəυməυ
Language name Polish �pəυliʃ
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Hokan Northern Pomo
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Spoken in California (USA)
Spoken in Poland
Approximate number of speakers 100
Approximate number of speakers 46m
Writing system
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress word-penultimate
Contains following rare uvular; ejective
consonant (types)
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Said to have how many vowels? 5�nasalisation (2)
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm stress-timed
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative stem-based for
verbs; wordbased
for nouns
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; full reduplication
Syntax
Syntax
Word order SOV AN prepositions
PossN
Word order SOV NA neither
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena evidentials; ergative / absolutive marking; morphological
aspect; serial verbs; switch reference
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Gordon (2002), Katzner (1977),
Richter (1987), Rothstein (1993), Ruhlen (1976)
Sources Gordon (2002), Maddieson (1984), McLendon (1975),
Mithun (1998, 1999), Ruhlen (1976)