User:WDENGLE1/Language selection - Revision history

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2022-01-29T08:06:04Z

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2022-01-23T22:55:55Z

Clarify

2022-01-23T22:48:42Z

Indicate partner pref

2022-01-23T03:51:16Z

ban: clarify

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ban: add more sources

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nds: Jonathan approves, so add more sources

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nds: might not work

2022-01-22T04:16:07Z

a/an

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ntj: more sources

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Fix link

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	[[User:Eresend1\|Elizabeth]] and I have agreed to work together this semester. [[User:WDENGLE1\|WDENGLE1]] ([[User talk:WDENGLE1\|talk]]) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)		[[User:Eresend1\|Elizabeth]] and I have agreed to work together this semester. [[User:WDENGLE1\|WDENGLE1]] ([[User talk:WDENGLE1\|talk]]) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)
		+	: We'll be working on [[Mixe]]. See below for other languages I considered.
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	== Ngaanyatjarra ==		== Ngaanyatjarra ==

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−	~~I've agreed to work with~~ [[User:Eresend1\|Elizabeth]] this semester. [[User:WDENGLE1\|WDENGLE1]] ([[User talk:WDENGLE1\|talk]]) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)	+	[[User:Eresend1\|Elizabeth]] and I have agreed to work together this semester. [[User:WDENGLE1\|WDENGLE1]] ([[User talk:WDENGLE1\|talk]]) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)

	== Ngaanyatjarra ==		== Ngaanyatjarra ==

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−	~~My experience tilts more "computational" than "linguistics". In particular, my knowledge of phonetics and phonology is weak. Therefore,~~ I'~~d prefer~~ to work with ~~someone with a strong linguistics background and perhaps less computational experience so that we could complement each other!~~	+	I've agreed to work with [[User:Eresend1\|Elizabeth]] this semester. [[User:WDENGLE1\|WDENGLE1]] ([[User talk:WDENGLE1\|talk]]) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)

	== Ngaanyatjarra ==		== Ngaanyatjarra ==

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 * [[:wikipedia:Balinese language|English Wikipedia]] article.
 * [[:wikipedia:ban:Kaca Utama|Balinese Wikipedia]] with [[:wikipedia:ban:special:statistics|over 11,400 articles and 45 users active within the past month]].
-* [https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/thomas-whitman-%E2%80%9982 Tom Whitman] at Swarthmore, director of the Balinese Gamelan (in which I participated last semester), might have resources.
+* [https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/thomas-whitman-%E2%80%9982 Tom Whitman] at Swarthmore, director of the Balinese Gamelan, might have resources. I can reach out if I work on this language (he knows who I am as I played in gamelan last semester).
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 * The language is referred to in itself as Plattdütsch among other names.
 * Estimated 4.35–7.15 million native speakers.
-* Morphological classification: synthetic (declension of adjectives/nouns and conjugation of verbs described on WP).
+* Morphological classification: synthetic (declension of adjectives/nouns and conjugation of verbs described on enwp).
 * Latin script/based on German orthography (SASS writing style) so the German keyboard layout should suffice.
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 * Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali as well as Northern Nusa Penida, Western Lombok, Eastern Java, Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi.
 * Native speakers: 3.3 million (as of 2000 census).
-* Morphological typology: synthetic.
+* Morphological typology: synthetic?
 * Written both in Latin script and in its own script, though primarily older texts are written in the latter. This could pose challenges (my [[:wikipedia:Screen reader|screen reader]] reads Balinese characters as hex codes).
 === Sources ===
-* [[:wikipedia:Balinese language|Wikipedia]].
+* [[:wikipedia:Balinese language|English Wikipedia]] article.
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 == Low German ==
 * ISO 639-3: [https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/nds nds].
 * West Germanic language variety spoken mainly in Northern Germany, with closely related dialects spoken in the northeastern part of the Netherlands.
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 * Estimated 4.35–7.15 million native speakers.
 * Morphological classification: synthetic (declension of adjectives/nouns and conjugation of verbs described on WP).
-* Latin script, with competing orthographic standards based on Dutch's and German's, so the Dutch and German keyboard layouts, respectively, should suffice.
+* Latin script/based on German orthography (SASS writing style) so the German keyboard layout should suffice.
 === Sources ===
-* [[:wikipedia:Low German|Wikipedia]]
+* [[:wikipedia:Low German|English Wikipedia article]].
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+* [http://deepl.com Deepl translator] has some support for this language via its (high) German rules. Certainly enough to get the gist of text, though struggles significantly with idioms.
 == Balinese ==

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 * A [https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8117&context=ecuworks small English dictionary of Western Desert terms]:Ngaanyatjarra is part of the Western Desert language family. PDF, has a text layer, probably harder to machine-parse.
 * [https://aboriginalbibles.org.au/ngaanyatjarra/ Bible translations] in various formats (the easiest for machine and my readability appear to be Epub/HTML).
-* A [https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7118/ pre-reading booklet for children], PDF appears to have a (at least somewhat complete) text layer but should be visually verified.
+* A [https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7118/ pre-reading booklet for children], PDF appears to have an (at least somewhat complete) text layer but should be visually verified.
 * Some [https://wangka.com.au/ngaanyatjarra-2/ books in Ngaanyatjarra collected by the Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre]: website is tricky accessibility-wise, might be worth contacting them for more resources if I work on this language.

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 * [[:wikipedia:Ngaanyatjarra dialect|Wikipedia article]] (contains some general info).
 * [https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/A38 Ngaanyatjarra's entry in the Australian Indigenous Languages Database] refers to some grammatical descriptions and sources of text, but I'm not sure how to access/find them.
 * [https://aboriginalbibles.org.au/ngaanyatjarra/ Bible translations] in various formats (the easiest for machine and my readability appear to be Epub/HTML).
 == Low German ==