Difference between revisions of "User:Igarcia2/Language selection"

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Niall Ferris Wayne

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

Morphological typologies (Wikipedia):

• Mirandese: (synthetic) fusional.
• Judeo-Italian: (synthetic) fusional.
• 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.

• QUECHUA
  • Number of speakers: 7,168,325.
  • Location: Peruvian Andes.
  • Number of languages in environment: 2+.
  • Status (intergenerational transmission): official language of Peru
  • Normative orthography: Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, el Quechua estándar/Hanan Runasimi.
  • Description of orthography: roman alphabet, multiple contested orthographies, uses w instead of hu for /w/, distinguishes velar k from uvular q, distinguishes simple, ejective and aspirated stops in dialects that make these distinctions.
  • ISO codes: que.