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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 324
Language name Provençal Occitan prɒvɒn�s�l
Language name Portuguese pɔ�tjυ�ɡi�z
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Romance
Language family Indo-European Romance
Spoken in France
Spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde
Approximate number of speakers 2m
Approximate number of speakers 134m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress stem-final
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 8
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9�nasalisation (5)�many diphthongs
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm stress-timed (European); syllable-timed (Brazilian)
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types
Particular formation types suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO VSO NA prepositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977)
Sources Camara (1972), Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977),
Parkinson (2003), Ruhlen (1976)
Pulaar see Fula
Punjabi see Panjabi