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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. [15]

Resources

• Some wordlists, short texts, and other information [16]
• Lezgian bible [17]
• OLAC page: [18]
• A Grammar of Lezgian [19]