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359 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Welsh welʃ
Language name Washoe, Washo �wɒʃəυ
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Celtic
Language family Hokan
Spoken in Wales
Spoken in California, Nevada (USA)
Approximate number of speakers 750k
Approximate number of speakers 100
Writing system Roman
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-final or penultimate
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 13
Contains following rare ejective
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6 + length + nasalisation
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony some
Morphology fusional stem-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types apophony; prefix; partial prefixed reduplication;
suffix; synaffix
Particular formation types prefix; suffix; partial prefixed and partial suffixed and
full reduplication
Syntax
Word order VSO NA prepositions
NPoss
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; inflecting prepositions; conjugation classes
Particular syntactic phenomena inclusive / exclusive 1st plural; switch reference
Points of interest mutation of word-initial consonants
Points of interest
Sources Campbell (1991), Thorne (1993)
Sources Haspelmath et al. (2005), Mithun (1999), Ruhlen (1976)
Wendish see Sorbian