Nicholas Welch
Postdoctoral researcher, McMaster University and University of Toronto
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Zudumal
Zudumal is spoken in the Dumic Archipelago. It is a member of the Ak-Dumic family of languages, of which Ak is the other prominent member. Verbs are highly agglutinative, with both subject and object agreement for person, number and gender. Nouns inflect for gender, number, and case. Lexical items in general are largely derived from biconsonantal, univocalic roots; derivation is both by affixation and by varying the order of the root segments.