User:Jdrisco1/Language selection - Revision history

Jdrisco1: /* Languages, in order of preference */

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‎Languages, in order of preference

Jdrisco1: added kaluli info

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added kaluli info

Jdrisco1 at 21:01, 23 January 2025

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Jdrisco1 at 20:53, 23 January 2025

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Jdrisco1: added dena'ina info

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added dena'ina info

Jdrisco1 at 20:26, 23 January 2025

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Jdrisco1: /* Rungus */

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‎Rungus

Jdrisco1: /* Rungus */

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‎Rungus

Jdrisco1: /* Resources for Rungus */

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‎Resources for Rungus

Jdrisco1: /* User:Jdrisco1 Language Selection */

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‎User:Jdrisco1 Language Selection

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 I would love to work with someone who has some sort of background in computers!
 === Languages, in order of preference ===
-* Rungus
+* ''Rungus''
-* Kaluli
+* ''Kaluli''
-* Dena'ina
+* ''Dena'ina''
 == Rungus ==
 [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/drg/ Rungus] is an Austronesian language and a variety of Momogun.

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 I think it's quite likely to find a few pages of Rungus. I haven't extensively gone through the list of resources, but there seems to be quite a bit to work with!
 == Kaluli ==
-Overview
+[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bco/ Kaluli] is a Trans-New Guinean/Bosavi language with four dialects, though dialectal differences are not huge.
-* '''Speakers:'''
+* '''Speakers:''' The Kaluli people, about 5,100 as of 2018. The Kaluli are located in the Southern Highlands and Western provinces of Papua New Guinea.
-* '''Language Status:'''
+* '''Language Status:''' "Educational." Kaluli is regarded as a developing and thriving language that is being taught in primary schools. That said, it has almost no digital support.
-* '''Orthography:'''
+* '''Orthography:''' Latin script.
-* '''ISO 639:'''
+* '''ISO 639:''' bco
 === Morphological Typology of Kaluli ===
+From the sources I can access right now, there isn't much information on its typology. I would go ahead and guess that it is at least semi-inflectional, since it uses affixation for tense marking and other things. It is an egophoric language (meaning that it is marked in the grammar whether one is personally involved in an event or not) and uses SOV.
 === Resources for Kaluli ===
 Here are the available resources I could find for Kaluli:
 == Dena'ina ==

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 === Languages, in order of preference ===
 * Rungus
 * Dena'ina
 == Rungus ==
 [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/drg/ Rungus] is an Austronesian language and a variety of Momogun.
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 ** [https://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf A grammar of Rungus that I found on Google Scholar]
 I think it's quite likely to find a few pages of Rungus. I haven't extensively gone through the list of resources, but there seems to be quite a bit to work with!
 == Dena'ina ==
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena%CA%BCina_language Dena'ina] is an Athabaskan language with four varieties. It is an official language of Alaska, and one of seven Athabaskan languages that is phonemically non-tonal.
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 * [https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\nde\pca&limit=-1 Basic lexicon]
 There is a phrasebook listed on the Wikipedia page, but the link is broken. That said, it seems pretty plausible to find a couple of pages of writing.
-[[Category:sp25_LanguageSelection]] [[Category:Rungus]] [[Category:Dena'ina]]
+[[Category:sp25_LanguageSelection]] [[Category:Rungus]] [[Category: Kaluli]] [[Category:Dena'ina]]

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 === Languages, in order of preference ===
 * Rungus
-* Language 2
+* Dena'ina
 * Language 3
 == Rungus ==
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 ** [https://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf A grammar of Rungus that I found on Google Scholar]
 I think it's quite likely to find a few pages of Rungus. I haven't extensively gone through the list of resources, but there seems to be quite a bit to work with!
+== Dena'ina ==
-== Language 2 ==
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena%CA%BCina_language Dena'ina] is an Athabaskan language with four varieties. It is an official language of Alaska, and one of seven Athabaskan languages that is phonemically non-tonal.
-Overview
+* '''Speakers:''' Of the Dena'ina population, which is around 1,000, only about 50 speakers remain. The Dena'ina are located in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska.
-* '''Speakers:'''
+* '''Language Status:''' Moribund ("at the point of death"). This means it is critically endangered/almost extinct. This project might thus feel more like language preservation.
-* '''Language Status:'''
+* '''Orthography:''' Latin script, Dena'ina alphabet. But, a Dena'ina artist created a custom alphabet for the language as well.
-* '''Orthography:'''
+* '''ISO 639-3:''' tfn
-* '''ISO 639:'''
+Dena'ina interests me because last summer I worked on Hän, which is also a Na-Dene/Athabaskan language of an indigenous people in Alaska. Athabaskan languages are infamously confusing to linguists, but since that is the language family I have experience with, it would be cool to find similarities and differences between the two languages.
-=== Morphological Typology of Language 2 ===
+=== Morphological Typology of Dena'ina ===
+Agglutinative, polysynthetic language. One word can mean an entire English sentence. There is some inflectional morphology when it comes to aspect in the form of affixation.
-=== Resources for Language 2 ===
+=== Resources for Dena'ina ===
-Here are the available resources I could find for Language 2:
+Here are the available resources I could find for Dena'ina:
 == Language 3 ==
 Overview

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 * '''Language Status:''' "threatened," with extremely low digital support.
 * '''Orthography:''' Latin script
-* '''ISO 639: drg'''
+* '''ISO 639:''' drg
 Rungus is my first choice because [https://sites.google.com/view/rungus/ my cat]'s name is also Rungus! I learned about the language after naming my cat, of course. She (my cat) is on campus and can help with the project.
 === Morphological Typology of Rungus ===

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 === Morphological Typology of Rungus ===
 Appears to be primarily inflectional: a [https://www.ebfo.de/rungus/Rungus-Grammar_A4.pdf grammar] I found shows that tenses and other words are formed with affixation, whether that be prefixes, infixes, or suffixes. I was under the impression that Austronesian languages tend to be further on the agglutinative side of things, so it's very possible that there is some agglutination happening as well.
-==== Resources for Rungus ====
+=== Resources for Rungus ===
 Here are the available resources I could find for Rungus:
 * [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/drg/ Ethnologue page]