User:Kdandy1/Language selection

I would like to work with Aaliyah Bullen and Jadyn Elliot

Preference List

1. Yaeyama
2. Northern Ndebele
3. Kabyle

Language Details

Language	ISO 639-3	Morphological Typology	Basic Information	Text Availability
Yaeyama	rys	Agglutinative: like Japanese, Yaeyama has a high amount of morphemes per word, and suffixal morphology where the suffixes are easily differentiable from the main meaning-carrying morpheme.	A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family. Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70. Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.	I eventually found that the article I was using earlier actually has a great multi-page text example complete with glosses and translation!
Northern Ndebele	nde	Agglutinative: It has a lot of affixal morphology and clearcut boundaries between morphemes. However, it doesn't resemble a typical agglutinative language in that the meanings of some morphemes can combine meaning.	Spoken mainly in Zimbabwe and Botswana by 2~3 million people. A Bantu language, specifically of the Nguni group of languages, it is also closely related to the Zulu and Xhosa languages.	I found a research paper with a small extract of text with translation, but nothing more than that yet. But I could probably find some more with help or more time.
Kabyle	kab	Likely agglutinative: It has lots of prefixal and suffixal morphology, and Berber languages tend to lean towards aggluginative.	A Berber language spoken mainly in Algeria, but also in Morocco, Tunisia and the Western Sahara, by the Kabyle ethnic group. The speaker population is around 5-7 million It became the official language of ALgeria in 2016 It's now written mostly in Latin script, but it used to be written with Arabic script.	I found a swadesh list here but as of yet I haven't found any full texts with translation. There may be more French to/from Kabyle translations of texts out there because it is mainly spoken in Algeria (most of the papers I'm finding are unfortunately in French).