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331 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Serbian Serbo-Croat �s��biən
Language name Seneca �senikə
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Slavic
Language family Macro-Siouan Iroquoian
Spoken in Serbia
Spoken in New York State (USA)
Approximate number of speakers 18m
Approximate number of speakers 150
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress second-syllable
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5 + length
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6 + nasalisation (2) + 9 diphthongs
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone tonal accent
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Morphology polysynthetic stem-based
verbs; wordbased
nouns
Syntax
Word order free AN prepositions
PossN
Particular formation types incorporation; infix; prefix; suffix
Syntax
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative /
accusative marking; conjugation classes
Word order VSO NA postpositions
PossN
Points of interest see also Croatian
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; dual; morphological aspect; alienable /
inalienable possession; inclusive / exclusive 1st plural
Sources Campbell (1991), Ruhlen (1976)
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Holmer (1954), Katzner (1977),
Maddieson (1984), Mithun (1984, 1999)
Serbo-Croat see Croatian; Serbian
Sesotho see Sotho
Setswana see Tswana