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I'm interested in working with Courtney Dalton on this project. I think we'd work well together because we're both Bryn Mawr students and I'm a Comp Sci student and she's a Linguistics student! | I'm interested in working with Courtney Dalton on this project. I think we'd work well together because we're both Bryn Mawr students and I'm a Comp Sci student and she's a Linguistics student! | ||
| − | + | ==Standard Tibetan== | |
| − | + | ===Morphological typology=== | |
| − | Morphological typology | + | Analytic, ergative and tonal. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Tibetan#Writing_system</ref> |
| − | Basic information | + | ===Basic information=== |
| − | Sources | + | 1.2 million from 1990 census, spoken in the "Tibet Autonomous Region," probably also exposed to Chinese, Nepalese, and Hindi, very conservative orthography.<ref>https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bod</ref> ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Tibetan#Writing_system</ref> |
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries. <ref>http://www.language-archives.org/language/bod</ref> | ||
| − | + | ==Syriac/Neo-Aramaic== | |
| − | Morphological typology: | + | ===Morphological typology=== |
| − | Basic information | + | Fusional.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language#Literary_Syriac</ref> |
| − | Sources | + | ===Basic information=== |
| + | 152,000 speakers, spoken in Iraq (Dahuk and Ninawa governorates), member of macrolanguage (Syriac) and lots of exposure to related languages in the region, often with a good degree of intelligibility. Written in the Syriac alphabet. <ref>https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aii</ref> ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language#Literary_Syriac</ref> | ||
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.) <ref>http://www.language-archives.org/language/aii</ref> | ||
| − | + | ==Lakota== | |
| − | Morphological typology | + | ===Morphological typology=== |
| − | Basic information | + | Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language</ref> |
| − | Sources | + | ===Basic information=== |
| + | 2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). <ref>https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lkt</ref> ISO 639-9 is lkt.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language</ref> | ||
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Tweets?!?!? That's so cool!<ref>http://www.language-archives.org/language/lkt</ref> | ||
[[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category:Standard Tibetan]], [[Category:Syriac/Neo-Aramaic]], [[Category:Lakota]] | [[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category:Standard Tibetan]], [[Category:Syriac/Neo-Aramaic]], [[Category:Lakota]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:56, 25 January 2018
I'm interested in working with Courtney Dalton on this project. I think we'd work well together because we're both Bryn Mawr students and I'm a Comp Sci student and she's a Linguistics student!
Contents
Standard Tibetan
Morphological typology
Analytic, ergative and tonal. [1]
Basic information
1.2 million from 1990 census, spoken in the "Tibet Autonomous Region," probably also exposed to Chinese, Nepalese, and Hindi, very conservative orthography.[2] ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod. [3]
Sources
Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries. [4]
Syriac/Neo-Aramaic
Morphological typology
Fusional.[5]
Basic information
152,000 speakers, spoken in Iraq (Dahuk and Ninawa governorates), member of macrolanguage (Syriac) and lots of exposure to related languages in the region, often with a good degree of intelligibility. Written in the Syriac alphabet. [6] ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc. [7]
Sources
Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.) [8]
Lakota
Morphological typology
Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal. [9]
Basic information
2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). [10] ISO 639-9 is lkt.[11]
Sources
Tweets?!?!? That's so cool![12],,,- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Tibetan#Writing_system
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bod
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Tibetan#Writing_system
- ↑ http://www.language-archives.org/language/bod
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language#Literary_Syriac
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aii
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language#Literary_Syriac
- ↑ http://www.language-archives.org/language/aii
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lkt
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language
- ↑ http://www.language-archives.org/language/lkt
