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* A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family.
 
* A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family.
 
* Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70.<ref>Lawrence, Wayne. 2015. Lexicon. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 157–73. https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018858654004921</ref>
 
* Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70.<ref>Lawrence, Wayne. 2015. Lexicon. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 157–73. https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018858654004921</ref>
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* Orthography: Katakana, one of the Japanese syllabaries.
 
 
* Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.  
 
* Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.  
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* Because the Yaeyama Islands are relatively spread out, the language has grown apart into many dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.
 
 
| I eventually found that the article I was using earlier actually has a great multi-page text example complete with glosses and translation! <ref name="one"/>
 
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! scope="row"| Northern Ndebele
 
! scope="row"| Northern Ndebele
 
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* Spoken mainly in Zimbabwe and Botswana by 2~3 million people.<ref>Northern Ndebele (sindebele / isindebele). Northern Ndebele alphabet, prounciation and language. (n.d.). https://omniglot.com/writing/sindebele.htm </ref>
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* A Bantu language, specifically of the Nguni group of languages, it is also closely related to the Zulu and Xhosa languages.<ref name="three"/>
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| I found a research paper with a small extract of text with translation, but nothing more than that yet.<ref>Hadebe, S. (2005). Translation as Problem-solving: The Case for Ndebele.</ref> But I could probably find some more with help or more time.
 
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| Likely agglutinative: It has lots of prefixal and suffixal morphology, and Berber languages tend to lean towards aggluginative.<ref>Corpus-based studies of lesser-described languages : the CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages. Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove, Dominique Caubet. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2015. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-90-272-6889-1</ref>
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*A Berber language spoken mainly in Algeria, but also in Morocco, Tunisia and the Western Sahara, by the Kabyle ethnic group.<ref name="six">Amazigh. Ethnologue. (n.d.). https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab</ref>
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*The speaker population is around 5-7 million<ref name="seven"> Felice, L. (2022). Cyclicity and Linearity in Morphology: The View from Icelandic, Gã, and Kabyle (Order No. 29066476). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection. (2661059560). https://proxy.swarthmore.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/cyclicity-linearity-morphology-view-icelandic-gã/docview/2661059560/se-2</ref>
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*It became the official language of ALgeria in 2016 <ref name="seven/>
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*It's now written mostly in Latin script, but it used to be written with Arabic script.<ref>Souag, Lameen. (2019). Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation. 10.1515/9783110639063-011.</ref>
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|I found a swadesh list here<ref>n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language.https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_kab_swadesh-1</ref> but as of yet I haven't found any full texts with translation. There may be more French to/from Kabyle translations of texts out there because it is mainly spoken in Algeria (most of the papers I'm finding are unfortunately in French).
 
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Preference List

  1. Yaeyama
  2. Northern Ndebele
  3. Kabyle

Language Details

Language ISO 639-3 Morphological Typology Basic Information Text Availability
Yaeyama rys Agglutinative: like Japanese, Yaeyama has a high amount of morphemes per word, and suffixal morphology where the suffixes are easily differentiable from the main meaning-carrying morpheme. [1]
  • A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family.
  • Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70.[2]
  • Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.
I eventually found that the article I was using earlier actually has a great multi-page text example complete with glosses and translation! [1]
Northern Ndebele nde Agglutinative: It has a lot of affixal morphology and clearcut boundaries between morphemes. However, it doesn't resemble a typical agglutinative language in that the meanings of some morphemes can combine meaning.[3]
  • Spoken mainly in Zimbabwe and Botswana by 2~3 million people.[4]
  • A Bantu language, specifically of the Nguni group of languages, it is also closely related to the Zulu and Xhosa languages.[3]
I found a research paper with a small extract of text with translation, but nothing more than that yet.[5] But I could probably find some more with help or more time.
Kabyle kab Likely agglutinative: It has lots of prefixal and suffixal morphology, and Berber languages tend to lean towards aggluginative.[6]
  • A Berber language spoken mainly in Algeria, but also in Morocco, Tunisia and the Western Sahara, by the Kabyle ethnic group.[7]
  • The speaker population is around 5-7 million[8]
  • It became the official language of ALgeria in 2016 [8]
  • It's now written mostly in Latin script, but it used to be written with Arabic script.[9]
 I found a swadesh list here[10] but as of yet I haven't found any full texts with translation. There may be more French to/from Kabyle translations of texts out there because it is mainly spoken in Algeria (most of the papers I'm finding are unfortunately in French).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shimoji, M., & Pellard, T. (2010). An introduction to Ryukyuan languages. https://lingdy.aa-ken.jp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2015-papers-and-presentations-An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
  2. ↑ Lawrence, Wayne. 2015. Lexicon. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 157–73. https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018858654004921
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Khumalo, L. (2007). An Analysis of the Ndebele Passive Construction.
  4. ↑ Northern Ndebele (sindebele / isindebele). Northern Ndebele alphabet, prounciation and language. (n.d.). https://omniglot.com/writing/sindebele.htm
  5. ↑ Hadebe, S. (2005). Translation as Problem-solving: The Case for Ndebele.
  6. ↑ Corpus-based studies of lesser-described languages : the CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages. Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove, Dominique Caubet. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2015. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-90-272-6889-1
  7. ↑ Amazigh. Ethnologue. (n.d.). https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Felice, L. (2022). Cyclicity and Linearity in Morphology: The View from Icelandic, Gã, and Kabyle (Order No. 29066476). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection. (2661059560). https://proxy.swarthmore.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/cyclicity-linearity-morphology-view-icelandic-gã/docview/2661059560/se-2
  9. ↑ Souag, Lameen. (2019). Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation. 10.1515/9783110639063-011.
  10. ↑ n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language.https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_kab_swadesh-1
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