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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 356
Language name Vietnamese Annamite vi�etnə�mi�z
Language name Uyghur Uighur �wi�ɡυə
Autonym (if known and different) tiéng Viêt
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Austro-Asiatic Mon-Khmer
Language family Altaic Turkic
Spoken in Vietnam
Spoken in China
Approximate number of speakers 66m
Approximate number of speakers 4.7m
Writing system Roman
Writing system Arabic, Roman and Cyrillic
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress word-final
Contains following rare retroflex; implosive
consonant (types)
Contains following rare uvular
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 11 + 20 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 9
Marked vowel types back unrounded
Marked vowel types front rounded
Tone contour
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony front–back and rounding
Morphology isolating word-based
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types dvanda; prefix; partial suffixed and full reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena classifier
Particular syntactic phenomena nominative / accusative marking
Points of interest usually cited as the best example of an isolating language
Points of interest very similar to Uzbek
Sources Campbell (1991), Maddieson (1984), Nguyê¯n (1990),
Ruhlen (1976), Thompson (1965), Yip (2002)
Sources Hahn (1998)