User:Eortici1/Language selection

The languages I'm interested in working on this semester include:

Bikol

Bikol is an agglutinative language. Its system of verbal morphology allows for a wide variety of semantic and syntactic contrast. ^[1]

Speakers: 2.5 million speakers (1990 census). Speakers of all Bikol languages: 4,580,000 (2000 census). ^[2]
Location: Central Bikol the most common language in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon, Philippines. It is spoken in all provinces of Bicol and it is a majority language in Camarines Sur. ^[3]
Other languages speakers may know: Speakers also speak Filipino (/Tagalog) and English, the two official languages of the Philippines.^[4]
Language Status: Bikol is the sixth most-spoken native language in the Philippines and its population of speakers is increasing.
Orthography: Uses Latin script. Also has braille.
ISO code: [bcl]

Text should be easy to find. There are almost 7,000 Wikipedia articles in Bikol here and a bible here. My dad is also a native speaker.

Guaraní is highly agglutinative to the degree that it is often classified as polysynthetic. ^[5]

Speakers: 4,650,000 in Paraguay (1995). 2,500,000 monolinguals (2002). ^[6]
Location: Primarily located in Paraguay, where it is an official language and spoken by a majority of the population. Guaraní is also widespread in South America; present in Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. ^[7]
Other languages speakers may know: Many know Spanish. ^[8]
Language Status: The population of speakers is decreasing. Guaraní is used extensively in bilingual schooling. ^[9]
Orthography: The orthography of Guaraní uses Latin script and includes two diacritics and six digraphs. The tilde is used for Ñ/ñ to differentiate the palatal nasal from the alveolar nasal (as in Spanish), whereas it marks stressed nasalization when used over a vowel (as in Portuguese): ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ, ỹ. The tilde also marks nasality in the case of G̃/g̃, used to represent the nasalized velar approximant by combining the velar approximant "G" with the nasalizing tilde. The letter G̃/g̃ is unique to this language and was introduced during the mid-20th century. Its use is controversial as it isn't a set letter in Unicode, which can cause typographic inconveniences. ^[10]
ISO code: [gug]

There are over 3,000 Wikipedia articles in Guaraní here and a Guaraní bible here. This should provide plenty of data.

Kinyarwanda is characterized by an agglutinative verbal complex, like other Bantu languages. ^[11]

Speakers: 11,299,900 total, 10,600,000 in Rwanda (2013). ^[12]
Location: Rwanda (where it is an official language), Eastern Congo, Uganda ^[13]
Other languages speakers may know: Speakers may know English and French, the other two official languages of Rwanda. ^[14]
Language Status: The population of speakers is growing. It is used for poetry, radio programs, and various other new media. ^[15]
Orthography: Latin script, braille. ^[16]
ISO code: [kin]

There are about 1800 Wikipedia articles written in Kinyarwanda, some BBC articles, and a bible. Of the three languages I've chosen, I think it will be the hardest to find material written in Kinyarwanda.