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* Biak prayers and songs: [https://www2.fgw.vu.nl/oz/biak/pp.php] | * Biak prayers and songs: [https://www2.fgw.vu.nl/oz/biak/pp.php] | ||
* PhD dissertation written on Biak: [https://www.lotpublications.nl/biak-description-of-an-austronesian-language-of-papua-biak-description-of-an-austronesian-language-of-papua] | * PhD dissertation written on Biak: [https://www.lotpublications.nl/biak-description-of-an-austronesian-language-of-papua-biak-description-of-an-austronesian-language-of-papua] | ||
| + | * OLAC page: [http://www.language-archives.org/language/bhw#lexical_resources] | ||
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| + | == Lezgian == | ||
| + | * ISO 639-3: lez [http://www.language-archives.org/language/lez] | ||
| + | * Lezgian is a Northeast Caucasian language and a member of the Lezgic language family, with about 800,000 speakers. Many Lezgian speakers are in Southern Dagestan and northern parts of Azerbaijan. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezgian_language] | ||
| + | * The Lezgins are mainly Sunni Muslim. [https://www.peterlin.pl/lezgi/lezgiyar.html] | ||
| + | * Lezgian is an agglutinative language. It has 18 cases (most of them locative cases) which are formed by agglutinating suffixes. It has no grammatical gender, and two types of declensions. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezgian_language#Phonology] | ||
| + | * Writing: Arabic, Latin, currently Cyrillic. | ||
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| + | === Resources === | ||
| + | * Some wordlists, short texts, and other information [http://www.peterlin.pl/lezgi/index.html] | ||
| + | * Lezgian bible [http://ibtrussia.org/en/text?m=LEZ&l=Matt.1.1.1&g=0] | ||
| + | * OLAC page: [http://www.language-archives.org/language/lez] | ||
| + | * A Grammar of Lezgian [https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4415432/mod_folder/content/0/Mouton%20Grammar%20Library/MGL%209%20Haspelmath.%20A%20Grammar%20of%20Lezgian.pdf?forcedownload=1] | ||
Revision as of 20:26, 14 February 2021
Contents
Biak
- ISO 639-3: bhw [1]
- Biak is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000-70,000 people in Biak and other small islands near Western New Guinea. [2]
- Speakers of Biak skew older, and most are also fluent in Malay. [3]
- Speakers of Biak are predominantly Christian. [4]
- Biak seems to be an agglutinative language like Malay or Indonesian. [5] describes how verbs are modified with either prefixes or infixes, depending on the beginning of the verb.
- Writing: Latin script. [6]
Resources
- Dictionary and several texts with English translations: [7]
- Biak prayers and songs: [8]
- PhD dissertation written on Biak: [9]
- OLAC page: [10]
Lezgian
- ISO 639-3: lez [11]
- Lezgian is a Northeast Caucasian language and a member of the Lezgic language family, with about 800,000 speakers. Many Lezgian speakers are in Southern Dagestan and northern parts of Azerbaijan. [12]
- The Lezgins are mainly Sunni Muslim. [13]
- Lezgian is an agglutinative language. It has 18 cases (most of them locative cases) which are formed by agglutinating suffixes. It has no grammatical gender, and two types of declensions. [14]
- Writing: Arabic, Latin, currently Cyrillic.
