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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. |
| − | 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. ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod. |
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries. | ||
| − | + | ==Syriac/Neo-Aramaic== | |
| − | Morphological typology | + | ===Morphological typology=== |
| − | Basic information | + | Fusional. |
| − | 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. ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc. | ||
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.) | ||
| − | + | ==Lakota== | |
| − | Morphological typology | + | ===Morphological typology=== |
| − | Basic information | + | Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal. |
| − | Sources | + | ===Basic information=== |
| + | 2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). ISO 639-9 is lkt. | ||
| + | ===Sources=== | ||
| + | Tweets?!?!? That's so cool! | ||
[[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category:Standard Tibetan]], [[Category:Syriac/Neo-Aramaic]], [[Category:Lakota]] | [[Category:sp18_LanguageSelection]], [[Category:Standard Tibetan]], [[Category:Syriac/Neo-Aramaic]], [[Category:Lakota]] | ||
Revision as of 05:46, 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.
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. ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod.
Sources
Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries.
Syriac/Neo-Aramaic
Morphological typology
Fusional.
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. ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc.
Sources
Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.)
Lakota
Morphological typology
Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal.
Basic information
2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). ISO 639-9 is lkt.
Sources
Tweets?!?!? That's so cool!,,,
