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337 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Spanish �sp�niʃ
Language name Sotho Sesotho �su�tu�
Autonym (if known and different) español
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Romance
Language family Niger-Congo Bantu
Spoken in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, etc.
Spoken in Botswana, South Africa
Approximate number of speakers 4m
Approximate number of speakers 300m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-penultimate
Stress word-penultimate
Contains following rare retroflex; click; ejective
consonant (types)
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9 + length
Said to have how many vowels? 5 + 5 diphthongs
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone register
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm usually classified as syllable-timed
Vowel harmony some height
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Morphology fusional word-based
Particular formation types prefix; partial suffixed and full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; noun classes
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977), Maddieson (1984)
Sources Doke (1954), Doke & Mofokeng (1957), Katzner (1977),
Gordon (2002)
Southern Lendu see Ngiti