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Cuadro de Las Lenguas Indigenas Del Dia de Hoy
Cuadro de Las Lenguas Indigenas Del Dia de Hoy
(a)The majority of languages are polysynthetic and head marking; Andean languages are synthetic, and combine head and dependent marking;
agglutinating with little fusion. basically, agglutinating with some fusion (subject, object, and tense suffixes
to the verb may be fused)
(b)Typically one liquid phoneme, which is frequently a flap: usually more Two or three liquids; fricatives rather than affricates; and a three- vowel
affricates tan fricatives. The high unrounded central vowel i is frequent. […] system i, a, and u, with no contrastive nasalization
there is typically contrastive nasalization of vowels.
(c) Many languages have extensive classifier and/or gender systems. […] NO genders or classifiers
(d) Thre are few oblique cases (often a locative and an Extensive set of core and oblique case markers
instrumental/comitative), hardly any core cases.
(e) Just one core argument is typically cross-referenced on the verb […] To core arguments are marked on the verb
(f) Just rules for which core argument is cross-referenced can be complex Fully nominative/accusative systems
(relating to the meaning of the verb, clause type, etc.) […]
(g) Most (although not all) languages have prefixes; there are typically fewer No prefixes
prefix than suffix positions.
(h) There is […] only a small class of lexical numbers. Full set of lexical numbers