User:Eschalk1/Language selection

I'm interested in working with Courtney Dalton on this project. I think we'd work well together because we're both Bryn Mawr students and I'm a Comp Sci student and she's a Linguistics student!

Standard Tibetan

Morphological typology

Analytic, ergative and tonal.

Basic information

1.2 million from 1990 census, spoken in the "Tibet Autonomous Region," probably also exposed to Chinese, Nepalese, and Hindi, very conservative orthography. ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod.

Sources

Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries.

Syriac/Neo-Aramaic

Morphological typology

Fusional.

Basic information

152,000 speakers, spoken in Iraq (Dahuk and Ninawa governorates), member of macrolanguage (Syriac) and lots of exposure to related languages in the region, often with a good degree of intelligibility. Written in the Syriac alphabet. ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc.

Sources

Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.)

Lakota

Morphological typology

Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal.

Basic information

2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). ISO 639-9 is lkt.

Sources

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