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=== Morphological Typology === | === Morphological Typology === | ||
| − | Guaraní is a highly agglutinative | + | Guaraní is a highly agglutinative language. It is also often classified as a polysynthetic language. <ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language#Grammar </ref> |
=== Basic Information <ref> https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gug </ref> === | === Basic Information <ref> https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gug </ref> === | ||
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=== Morphological Typology === | === Morphological Typology === | ||
| + | Kabardian is an agglutinative language. <ref> https://books.google.com/books?id=qpClCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3528&lpg=PA3528&dq=kabardian+agglutinative&source=bl&ots=jL6EtQq2yz&sig=oYWpScO55skmzwkh507mM12x72Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju85G0lM3RAhUJ5YMKHdgSA4gQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=kabardian%20agglutinative&f=false </ref> | ||
| − | === Basic Information === | + | === Basic Information<ref>https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kbd</ref> === |
| + | *'''Location''': Kabardian is Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly in Turkey and in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia in Russia. It is also spoken in parts of Jordan and Syria. | ||
| + | *'''Number of native speakers''': 1,628,500 worldwide (Not too sure about the breakdown, 516,000 in Russia, some sources list more than 1,000,000 in Turkey<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabardians</ref>, others list 202,000 in Turkey<ref>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14a2/abed6c1888429e80a749b5327809b6e7876e.pdf</ref>) | ||
| + | *'''iso''': <code>kbd</code> | ||
| + | *'''Orthography''': Cyrllic script | ||
| + | *'''Current Status''': Kabardian, sometimes known as East Circassian, is a developing language (EGIDS level 5). The majority of Kabardians are bilingual, with many able to speak Russian in addition to Kabardian. Kabardian is still taught in schools. | ||
===Text availability === | ===Text availability === | ||
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== 3. Abkhaz == | == 3. Abkhaz == | ||
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1. Guaraní
Morphological Typology
Guaraní is a highly agglutinative language. It is also often classified as a polysynthetic language. [1]
Basic Information [2]
- Location: Mostly spoken in Paraguay, but also spoken in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.
- Number of native speakers: 4,850,000 worldwide (4,650,000 in Paraguay)
- iso:
gug - Orthography: Latin script, largely phonemic
- Current Status: Guaraní, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Paraguay. It is an indigenous language spoken by the majority of the population. There are approximately 2,500,000 monolingual speakers of Guaraní. It is used extensively in bilingual education (still taught in many schools).
Text availability
There appears to be plenty of text available for Guaraní, including a Bible translation.[3]
2. Kabardian
Morphological Typology
Kabardian is an agglutinative language. [4]
Basic Information[5]
- Location: Kabardian is Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly in Turkey and in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia in Russia. It is also spoken in parts of Jordan and Syria.
- Number of native speakers: 1,628,500 worldwide (Not too sure about the breakdown, 516,000 in Russia, some sources list more than 1,000,000 in Turkey[6], others list 202,000 in Turkey[7])
- iso:
kbd - Orthography: Cyrllic script
- Current Status: Kabardian, sometimes known as East Circassian, is a developing language (EGIDS level 5). The majority of Kabardians are bilingual, with many able to speak Russian in addition to Kabardian. Kabardian is still taught in schools.
Text availability
3. Abkhaz
Morphological Typology
Basic Information
Text availability
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language#Grammar
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gug
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language#Literature
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=qpClCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3528&lpg=PA3528&dq=kabardian+agglutinative&source=bl&ots=jL6EtQq2yz&sig=oYWpScO55skmzwkh507mM12x72Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju85G0lM3RAhUJ5YMKHdgSA4gQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=kabardian%20agglutinative&f=false
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kbd
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabardians
- ↑ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14a2/abed6c1888429e80a749b5327809b6e7876e.pdf
