User:Mbrown7/Language selection

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Ideal Partners

Anyone w/ a background in CS or shares common language interests

Languages of Interest

  • Yakan
  • Mru
  • Tigre

Yakan

  • [yka] ISO code[1]
  • Presumably Agglutinative language
  • Found Texts and Audio
  • Yakan to English texts seem like each morpheme matches w/ a certain meaning
  • Inferring that Yakan has prefixation
  • Around 130,000 native speakers[2]
  • Vigorous usage[3]
  • Arabic Script; Possibly Naskh variant and Latin script[4]

Mru

  • [mro] ISO code[5]
  • Currently cannot find many texts
  • Around 72,700 native speakers[6]
  • Used by all speakers, Developing[7]
  • Mro Script, Latin Script[8]

Tigre

  • [tig] ISO code[9]
  • Currently cannot find many texts
  • Around 890,300 native speakers[10]
  • Used by all speakers, Educational Level[11]
  • Arabic Script; Geʽez script[12],,,,