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Fortunatian Ethnologue Entry



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.