User:Nferris1/Language selection

Proposed partner: Ismael Emilio Garcia

1. Mirandese language (lhéngua mirandesa).
2. Judeo-Italian language (giudeo-italiano).
3. San Martín Quechua/Runasimi language.

Morphological typologies (Wikipedia):

• Mirandese: (synthetic) fusional.
• Judeo-Italian: (synthetic) fusional.
• San Martín Quechua: (synthetic) agglutinative.

Basic information (Ethnologue; Wikipedia)

• Mirandese
  • Number of speakers: 15,000.
  • Location: Bragança district: Miranda do Douro and Vimioso municipalities, Miranda city; Spain border.
  • Number of languages in environment: 2-3.
  • Status (intergenerational transmission): 2 (Provincial); statutory language of provincial identity in 4 municipalities, northeast Portugal.
  • Normative orthography: Convenção Ortográfica da Língua Mirandesa.
  • Description of orthography: Latin alphabet, cedillas (ç) can be placed before consonants, circumflex accent used in diphthongs.
  • ISO codes: mwl.

• Judeo-Italian
  • Number of speakers: 250
  • Location: Tuscany region: Siena province, Buonconvento; urban areas central and north, Rome.
  • Number of languages in environment: 2
  • Status (intergenerational transmission): 8a (Moribund).
  • Normative orthography: None.
  • Description of orthography: Historically the Hebrew (10th-18th centuries) and Roman (19th-20th centuries) alphabets.
  • ISO codes: itk.

• San Martín Quechua
  • Number of speakers: 15,000
  • Location: Amazonas region: Roderigo de Menedez province; Loreto region: one enclave; San Martin region: Lamas, Sisa and other districts, and along Ucayali river.
  • Number of languages in environment: 2+.
  • Status (intergenerational transmission): 6b (Threatened).
  • Normative orthography: None.
  • Description of orthography: Latin alphabet.
  • ISO codes: qvs