Difference between revisions of "User:Arobey1/Language selection"
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** It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina | ** It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina | ||
** Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive | ** Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive | ||
| − | ** There are four main dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south | + | ** There are four main dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south. Within these dialect groups, there are eight dialect subgroups numbered I through VII |
| + | ** There was no system of writing before the Spanish arrived in the late 1500s/early 1600s | ||
| + | ** Mapudungun is an agglutinative language, meaning that it is composed of sequences of meaningful word elements (called morphemes) each of which belongs to a single grammatical category. Most verb phrases are formed from five or six morphemes | ||
| + | ** The numbers 1-10 are: 1 kiñe, 2 epu, 3 küla, 4 meli, 5 kechu, 6 kayu, 7 regle, 8 pura, 9 aylla, 10 mari | ||
* Futuna | * Futuna | ||
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* http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates | * http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language | ||
| + | * https://www.britannica.com/topic/agglutination-grammar | ||
Language selection tag: [[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category: Mapudungun]] | Language selection tag: [[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category: Mapudungun]] | ||
Revision as of 12:38, 24 January 2018
I would like to work with Kevin Murphy (User:Kmurphy4). He has a much stronger background in linguistics than I do, which will complement my past work in computer science for this class.
Three languages we are thinking about are:
- Mapudungun
- Mapudungun is a language isolate, meaning that is not historically or linguistically related to other languages; some sources indicate that there is some lexical influence from the Quechuan languages and from Spanish
- It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina
- Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive
- There are four main dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south. Within these dialect groups, there are eight dialect subgroups numbered I through VII
- There was no system of writing before the Spanish arrived in the late 1500s/early 1600s
- Mapudungun is an agglutinative language, meaning that it is composed of sequences of meaningful word elements (called morphemes) each of which belongs to a single grammatical category. Most verb phrases are formed from five or six morphemes
- The numbers 1-10 are: 1 kiñe, 2 epu, 3 küla, 4 meli, 5 kechu, 6 kayu, 7 regle, 8 pura, 9 aylla, 10 mari
- Futuna
- Wichí
Sources:
- http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/agglutination-grammar
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