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| − | Speakers also tend to use English. As of 2016, about 1100 speakers. A Pama-Nyungan language spoken in northwestern Australia. | + | Speakers also tend to use English. Many also speak other local language varieties. As of 2016, about 1100 speakers. A Pama-Nyungan language spoken in northwestern Australia. |
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| + | [https://aboriginalbibles.org.au/ngaanyatjarra/ Bible translations] | ||
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| + | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaanyatjarra_dialect Wikipedia: Ngaanyatjarra dialect] | ||
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| + | [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ntj Ethnologue] | ||
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| + | [https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ntj_morsyn-1/mode/2up Excerpt of W. H. Douglas' An Introduction to the Western Desert Language of Australia] | ||
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Revision as of 20:35, 23 January 2022
Bill Dengler and I are planning on working together.
Languages I'm interesting in working on:
- Mixe
- Chatino
- Ngaanyatjarra
Contents
Mixe
Mixe refers to a group of Mixe–Zoquean languages spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. On the 2020 Mexico census, 140,000 people reported their language as "Mixe", though some of those folks may have spoken related varieties spoken in Veracruz, which I'm considering as distinct. The four varieties of Mixe, excluding those Veracruzean varieties, are North Highland (Totontepec), South Highland (Tlahuitoltepec), Midland, and Lowland Mixe.
Totontepec (ISO: mto) is, according to Ethnologue, the most distinct of these varieties [1]. It has about 5,500 speakers and is considered a Developing (language status 5) language. Tlahuitoltepec (ISO: mxp) is more widely spoken, with about 17,000 speakers [2]. Its language status is 6a (vigorous).
Morphological Typology and such
Polysynthetic (words composed of many morphemes, allowing for long "sentence-like" (what we would consider sentence-like in English terms) words). Morpheme inflections mainly on verbs. Ergative.
Primarily SOV (Ethnologue also lists VOS for Tlahuitoltepec).
Written with Latin script, primarily. Other orthographies have been proposed and used, but none have stuck.
Speakers likely also speak Spanish. Some also speak Zapotec or Chinantec varieties. Members of local Mixe communities have been working on language maintenance efforts.
Resources
It seems like it'd be fairly easy to find Mixe text to work with. For example, there are bible translations for several Mixe varieties.
Community radio station that broadcasts in Mixe: XEGLO-AM/XHGJO-FM (La Voz de la Sierra Juárez – "The Voice of the Sierra Juárez") XEGLO website
Austrian Academy of Sciences: Mixe
Romero-Mendez Dissertation: A Reference Grammar of Ayutla Mixe
Anna Kondic's book on Mixe narratives. Presents texts in Mixe and includes English and Spanish translations, audio recordings, and video recordings. This would be an invaluable resource, but I'm not sure how to find it.
Chatino
A group of mesoamerican languages. Like Mixe, also spoken in Oaxaca. About 45,000 speakers. The Mexican government considers Chatino a language with a high risk of disappearance. The Chatino Language Documentation Project was an attempt by linguists, professors, and Chatino speakers to document and create resources for Chatino.
Varieties: Zenzontepec (ISO: czn), Tataltepec (ISO: cta), Zacatepec (ISO: ctz), Western Highland (ISO: ctp), Nopala (ISO: cya), Eastern (ISO: cly).
Morphological Typology and such
According to Ethnologue: SVO, long words, affixes, tonal. Complex tonal system. Lots of consonant clusters. Uses a base-20 system for numerals.
An oral language without orthography before 2002. The current orthography is (I think) a modified Latin script.
Resources
Enough work has been done that I know there are audio and transcripts of Chatino speach out there, but I'm not sure how I'd get ahold of most of them.
Life&Letters: Chatting in Chatino
Justin McIntosh Dissertation: Aspects of phonology and morphology of Teotepec eastern Chatino
Ngaanyatjarra
(ISO: ntj)
Speakers also tend to use English. Many also speak other local language varieties. As of 2016, about 1100 speakers. A Pama-Nyungan language spoken in northwestern Australia.
Morphological Typology and such
Written with Latin script.
Seems to have a decent (maybe a lot?) of morphology, including tense and aspect marking on verbs, command markings on verbs, and person-dependent subject and object marking on nouns.
Resources
Wikipedia: Ngaanyatjarra dialect
Excerpt of W. H. Douglas' An Introduction to the Western Desert Language of Australia,,,
