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Language name Russian �r�ʃən
Language name Rotuman
THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 328
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Language family Austronesian Eastern Oceanic
Spoken in Russia
Spoken in Rotuma
Approximate number of speakers 160m
Approximate number of speakers 7k
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress variable
Stress quantity-based
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 10
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types front rounded
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; partial prefixed and full reduplication; suffix;
synaffix
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena inclusive / exclusive 1st plural; dual; nominative /
accusative marking
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977), Maddieson
(1984), Timberlake (1993)
Points of interest
Sources Ruhlen (1976), Schmidt (2002)
Rumanian see Romanian