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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 334
Language name Slave Slavey �sleivi
Language name Sinhalese Sinhala sinə�li�z
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Na-Dene Athabaskan
Language family Indo-European Indic
Spoken in North-West Territories (Canada)
Spoken in Sri Lanka
Approximate number of speakers 250
Approximate number of speakers 17m
Writing system
Writing system its own syllabary
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress
Contains following rare ejective
consonant (types)
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6 + nasalisation
Said to have how many vowels? 7 + length
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone register
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology polysynthetic stem-based for
verbs; wordbased
for nouns
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types infix; full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types incorporation; prefix; (suffix)
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order SOV NA postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; nominative / accusative marking;
conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; gender
Points of interest plural unmarked for inanimates
Points of interest
Sources Haspelmath et al. (2005), Rice (1998), Yip (2002)
Sources Campbell (1991), Gair (2003), Gair & Paolillo (1997),
Katzner (1977), Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976)
Slavey see Slave
Slovak see Slovakian