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Revision as of 14:41, 24 January 2023

Lab Partners: Keira Dandy and Jadyn Elliot

Chosen Languages Overview

  1. Tulu [1] is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka, India with 1,850,000 total speakers | ISO: tcy
  2. Ch'ol [2] is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Chiapas, Mexico with 255,000 total speakers | ISO: ctu
  3. Awngi [3] is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia with 553,400 total speakers | ISO: awn

Tulu

Morphological Information

Tulu is an agglutinative language, similarly to most Dravidian languages. The following is taken directly from the Tulu language wiki page.

Tulu has five parts of speech: nouns (substantives and adjectives), pronouns, numerals, verbs, and particles.

Substantives have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and eight cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative or instrumental, communicative, and vocative). According to Bhat, Tulu has two distinct locative cases. The communicative case is used with verbs like tell, speak, ask, beseech, inquire, and denotes at whom a message, an inquiry, or a request is aimed, as in "I told him." or "I speak to them." It is also used to denote the relationship with whom it is about, in a context like "I am on good terms with him." or "I have nothing against him." The plural suffix is -rŭ, -ḷu, -kuḷu, or -āḍḷu. The nominative case is unmarked, while the remaining cases are expressed by different suffixes.

Orthographic Information

Tulu is often said to have no script of its own. Today, it is primarily written in Kannada script (which is also used for Kannada and a few other languages). [4] However, Tigalari, a Tulu script was used exclusively until the 19th century when the lack of literacy in it led to an endangered classification. [5] The Tulu script, though no longer used, is closely related to the Malayalam script. It is recognized as being used as early as 1159 AD. [6].

Available Corpora

Abundant resources. Specifically, there seem to be several grammr books, and a lot of religious texts.

Ch'ol

Morphological Information

Ch'ol is an agglutinative language.

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Available Corpora

Adequate. A lot of resources are in Spanish. File:Https://pages.ucsd.edu/~jhaviland/ArchiveHTML/Chol/Jessica/ch1.pdf

Awngi

Morphological Information

Orthographic Information

Available Corpora

Adequate