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I'd probably want to work with someone with more experience in linguistics, as I have a fair bit of computer experience but am fairly lost when it comes to the language side of things.

Languages I might want to work with:

Alemannisch

General sources: [1][2][3]

• ISO code: gsw
• Morphological typology: Mostly fairly similar to German but I don't have enough expertise to interpret the Wikipedia articles on this
• Speakers: About 5-10 million

• Mostly in Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and southern Germany
• Also, spoken by some Amish communities in the United States, mostly in Indiana
• Also, in a small town in Venezuela (Colonia Tovar) founded in 1843 by German immigrants[4]

• Status: Categorized as 5 ("developing") by Ethnologue ("in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable.")

• In very widespread use in Switzerland and Lichtenstein but endangered elsewhere

• Boundaries, categorization, etc. are somewhat nebulous, as while Swiss-German is not mutually intelligible with Standard German, speakers exist all along the dialect continuum
• Orthography: Swiss-German speakers in Switzerland use Standard German and/or Swiss Standard German for formal occasions, school instruction, all formal writing; hence, no defined orthography exists for Swiss-German
• Text availability: Swiss-German/Alemannisch Wikipedia exists[5], and it can be downloaded here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/alswiki/20220120/

Marshallese

General sources: [6][7]

• ISO code: mah
• Morphological typology: I don't have enough expertise to interpret the Wikipedia articles on this
• Speakers: about 50,000-60,000, mostly in the Marshall Islands
• Status: National language of the Marshall Islands
• Orthography: Latin script; two competing orthographies (one introduced by missionaries, one more recent); some problems with Unicode display of diacritics in some fonts
• Text availability: Fairly easy to find some text; Bible translations available[8]

Chatino

Actually consists of several dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility

General sources: [9][10]

• ISO codes: cly, cta, ctp, ctz, cya, czn
• Morphological typology: I don't have enough expertise to interpret the Wikipedia articles on this
• Speakers: About 50,000, namely the Chatino people in southern Oaxaca, Mexico
• Status: "Vigorous. All domains. Oral use in local administration, commerce, religious services, some in primary and secondary education. Used by all. Positive attitudes."[11]
• Orthography: No standardized orthography; a variety of proposed orthographies, generally all using some form of Latin script
• Text availability: Chatino-language children's books[12], online Bible[13]