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355 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Urubu-Kaapor
Language name Urdu �υədu�, ���du�
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Tupí-Guaraní
Language family Indo-European Indic
Spoken in Brazil
Spoken in Pakistan, India
Approximate number of speakers 500
Approximate number of speakers 50m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Urdu script, modified from Perso-Arabic
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-final
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6 + nasalisation
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Contains following rare retroflex; voiced aspirated plosive
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5 + length + nasalisation + 4 diphthongs
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Morphology fusional stem-based
Particular formation types (incorporation); prefix; full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV NA postpositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; morphological aspect; nominative / accusative
marking; conjugation classes
Points of interest
Sources Kakumasu (1986)
Points of interest basically the same language as Hindi, though written
with a different script, and several vocabulary differences
Sources Barz (1977), Campbell (1991), Maddieson (1984),
Ruhlen (1976)