User:Abullen1/Language selection
Lab Partners: Keira Dandy and Jadyn Elliot
Chosen Languages Overview
- Tulu [1] is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka, India with 1,850,000 total speakers | ISO: tcy
- Ch'ol [2] is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Chiapas, Mexico with 255,000 total speakers | ISO: ctu
- Awngi [3] is a tonal Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia with 553,400 total speakers | ISO: awn
Tulu
Morphological Information
Tulu is an agglutinative language, similarly to most Dravidian languages. The following is taken directly from the Tulu language wiki page.
Tulu has five parts of speech: nouns (substantives and adjectives), pronouns, numerals, verbs, and particles.
Substantives have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and eight cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative or instrumental, communicative, and vocative). According to Bhat, Tulu has two distinct locative cases. The communicative case is used with verbs like tell, speak, ask, beseech, inquire, and denotes at whom a message, an inquiry, or a request is aimed, as in "I told him." or "I speak to them." It is also used to denote the relationship with whom it is about, in a context like "I am on good terms with him." or "I have nothing against him." The plural suffix is -rŭ, -ḷu, -kuḷu, or -āḍḷu. The nominative case is unmarked, while the remaining cases are expressed by different suffixes.
Orthographic Information
Tulu is often said to have no script of its own. Today, it is primarily written in Kannada script (which is also used for Kannada and a few other languages). [4] However, Tigalari, a Tulu script was used exclusively until the 19th century when the lack of literacy in it led to an endangered classification. [5] The Tulu script, though no longer used, is closely related to the Malayalam script. It is recognized as being used as early as 1159 AD. [6].
Available Corpora
Abundant resources. Specifically, there seem to be several grammr books, and a lot of religious texts.
Ch'ol (Lak T'an)
Morphological Information
Ch'ol is an agglutinative language. It typically has VOS word order, but this is not always grammatical. [7]
Orthographic Information
Ch'ol is written using the Latin script. [8] The Ch'ol alphabet was first proposed in 1992 and has 29 letters. [9]
Available Corpora
near Abundant. A lot of resources are in Spanish. Links go to some potentially useful sources.
- Ch'ol Thesis
- Guide to the Ch'ol Language (Lak T'an) with Grammar and Useful Phrases: Complete Bilingual Guide to the Ch'ol Maya Language of Tumbalá, Chiapas, México
Awngi
Morphological Information
Awngi uses SOV word order.
Orthographic Information
Awngi has been written with Ethiopic script since 1995 [10] The script does not represent consonant lengthening, which might impact how it represents Awngi.
Available Corpora
near Abundant. Specifically, I see a few grammar books that seem less holistic than the Tulu books. I see a wide overview of books on linguistic features and a dictionary.
