Fortunatian Ethnologue Entry

From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 13:51:18 EST


FORTUNATIAN (UCHUNATA RYNJA) [FOR] {Marcus Miles} 19,000 in Fortunate
Islands, 2,000 in the Porphyrean Island; 45% bilingual (Basque,
Champenois). Heavily fragmented into dialects. Indo-European, Italic,
Romance, Southern Romance. 4% literacy rate. Typology SVO,
polysynthetic, prepositional, noun-genitive, adjective-noun. Latin
script; also new Perso-Arabic adaptation. Donatist, Fortunatian
Uniate, a few Muslim converts. Bible (Donatist) c. 1100.



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