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I prefer to have a partner with CS background since I have linguistic background but not much experience with CS. Partner with similar direction in the language selection is also appreciated.

Chechen

Morphological typology

Chechen is an agglutinative language with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment. ^[1]

Basic Information

• ISO: che
• Population: 1,350,000 (2010 census). 233,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 1,430,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 1,503,680.
• Location: Chechnya republic, Dagestan republic, and Ingushetia republic; Stavropol krai; north Caucasus, most in rural areas.
• Language use: Largest Nakh-Daghestanian language. Used in publishing. Also use Russian.
• Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

All info from Ethnologue. ^[2]

Resource Availability

Resources in this language is very easy to find.

• There are 208,792 articles in Wikipedia in Chechen language.^[3]
• There is a Chechen version of ^[4] available as well.
• Other types of resources are also plentiful online.

Lak

Morphological typology

Lak is possibly an agglutinative language since it belongs to Northeast Caucasian Language family and languages from this family can be characterized by strong suffixal agglutination. ^[5]

Basic Information

• ISO: lbe
• Population: 146,000 (2010 census). Ethnic population: 179,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 154,820.
• Location: Dagestan republic.
• Language use: Also use Russian.
• Writing system: Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

All info from Ethnologue. ^[6]

Resource Availability

Resources in this language is very easy to find.

• There are 1,216 articles in Wikipedia in Lak language.^[7]
• There is a Lak version of Bible as well.
• Basic lak vocab

Ingush

Morphological typology

Ingush is possibly an agglutinative language ^[8] with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment ^[9], since it belongs to Northeast Caucasian Language family.

Basic Information

• ISO: inh
• Population: 306,000 (2010 census). Ethnic population: 445,000 (2010 census). Total users in all countries: 322,900.
• Location: Chechnya republic, Ingushetia republic, Kabardino-Balkar republic, and North Ossetia-Alania republic.
• Language use: Also use Russian
• Writing system: Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Cyrillic script [Cyrl]. Latin script [Latn].

All info from Ethnologue. ^[10]

Resource Availability

• There is a Ingush version of Bible available.

References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_language]
2. ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/che
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Detailed_list
4. ↑ https://ibtrussia.org/en/media?id=CHE Bible
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages#Morphology
6. ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lbe
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Detailed_list
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages#Morphology
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingush_language#Grammar
10. ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/inh