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363 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Yiddish �jidiʃ
Language name Yawelmani jɑ�wel�mɑ�ni
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Germanic
Language family Yokutsan
Spoken in USA, Israel, Eastern Europe
Spoken in California (USA)
Approximate number of speakers 3m
Approximate number of speakers
Writing system Hebrew
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Stress word-penultimate
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Contains following rare ejective
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6 + 3 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 5 + length
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm stress-timing
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony none
Vowel harmony rounding
Morphology fusional word-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types apophony; prefix; suffix; synaffix
Particular formation types apophony; suffix; full and partial reduplication
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order variable neither
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; dual; nominative /
accusative marking
Particular syntactic phenomena gender; nominative / accusative marking;
conjugation classes
Points of interest
Points of interest Jewish lingua franca with elements from Hebrew,
Aramaic and Slavic as well as Germanic
Sources Haspelmath et al. (2005), Mithun (1999)
Sources Birnbaum (1979), Campbell (1991), Katz (1987)