User:Dkhazan1/Language selection

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I will be working with Harrison Saunders


  • Abkhaz:
    • Abkhaz is an agglutinative inflecting language
    • There are 194,710 speakers but the majority (129,000) of speakers are from Georgia
    • The language comes from the Abkhazia region in the Caucuses, in Abkhazia most speakers also speak Georgian and the status of Abkhaz is provincial.
    • There are three main dialects: Bzyb, Sadz, and Abzhywa
    • ISO 639-3 abk
    • I do not think it will be too hard to find written sources, one example could be part of the script from the film Tangerines in which the main characters converse in Abkhaz

  • Mapudungun/Mapuche
    • Mapadungun or Mapuche is also an agglutinative inflecting language it is also polysynthetic
    • There are 258,410 speakers 250,000 of which live in Chile
    • The language is considered a language isolate and is spoken throughout the Andes Mountains
    • It is not recognized as an official language in the countries it is spoken in (Chile and Argentina)
    • ISO 639-3 arn
    • Mostly adults speak it but some young people as well
    • I found a bible in Mapudungun and other texts (https://breakeveryyoke.com/mapudungun)

  • Kansa:
    • Kansa comes from Oklahoma and Kansas and was said to be extinct after the death of the last fluent speaker Walter Kekahbah in 1983, but there are people that claim to be fluent so it could be alive still
    • ISO 639-3 ksk
    • It is an inflecting language
    • It is of the Siouan language family
    • Its speakers were called the Kaw people
    • Website where there are examples of Kansa (http://www.native-languages.org/kansa.htm#language)

Citations: https://www-ethnologue-com.proxy.swarthmore.edu/language/abk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhaz_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language https://www-ethnologue-com.proxy.swarthmore.edu/language/arn http://www.native-languages.org/kansa.htm#language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansa_language#Grammar https://www-ethnologue-com.proxy.swarthmore.edu/language/ksk