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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 364
Language name Yoruba �jɒrυbə
Language name Yimas
Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Niger-Congo Kwa
Language family Papuan Lower Sepik
Spoken in Nigeria, Dahomey, Benin
Spoken in Papua New Guinea
Approximate number of speakers 20m
Approximate number of speakers 250
Writing system Roman
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress word-initial
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 7 + nasalisation (4)
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 4
Marked vowel types
Marked vowel types
Tone register
Tone none
Rhythm syllable-timing
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony some height
Vowel harmony none
Morphology isolating and word-based
agglutinative
Morphology polysynthetic stem-based for
verbs; wordbased
for nouns
Particular formation types prefix; full reduplication
Syntax
Word order SVO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular formation types incorporation; partial prefixed and full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order verb-final AN and NA neither
PossN and NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; serial verbs
Points of interest
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; noun class; dual and
paucal; serial verbs
Sources Bamgbose (1969), Campbell (1991), Pulleyblank (2003),
Rowlands (1969), Ruhlen (1976)
Points of interest
Sources Foley (1986, 1991)
Yinisey see Ket