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I am open to working with anyone. I do not know anyone in the class.

Three languages I might like to work on this semester include:

Amis:

• Amis seems to be a polysynthetic language, with roots that can be expanded to mean larger phrases in English. For example, "rakat" meaning "walk" can. be expanded to "r-um-akat" meaning "to walk" and "pa-ka-r-um-akat-en" meaning "will be made to walk" (from Kazuhiro Imanishi at the University of Tokyo).
• 108,000 speakers.
• Spoken in Hualien on the eastern coast of Taiwan. Speakers might also speak Taiwanese or Mandarin.
• Amis is an Austronesian language of Taiwan.
• Status is 6b: Threatened.
• The written language is using the latin script, with the vowels a, e, i, u and the consonants c, d, g, h, k, l, m, n , ng, p, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z, and also utilizes hats and apostrophes.
• ISO Code: AMI
• Finding texts for this language may be a bit more difficult but I did manage to find some, such as the holy bible. http://www.language-archives.org/language/ami
• A word list/dictionary is also available. https://acd.clld.org/languages/227

Swabian:

• A synthetic, fusional language. Roots and morphemes are often fused. There is inflectional morphology in the language, such as conjugation or changing the tense of a word.
• 820,000 speakers.
• Spoken in Germany, specifically the Baden-Württemberg state and the Bayern state: Schwaben area.
• This language is a variety of Alemannic German.
• Status is 5: Developing.
• It writes with the German alphabet, which uses the same 26 letters as English, plus three umlauts (ae, oe, and ue) and an essett.
• ISO code: SWG
• I don't anticipate difficulty finding text...the Wikipedia page even includes a list of Swabian Dialect Writers.

Alemannic:

• Similar to Swabian, A synthetic, fusional language. Roots and morphemes are often fused. There is inflectional morphology in the language, such as conjugation or changing the tense of a word.
• 6,434,400 speakers.
• Spoken in Switzerland and throughout Germany.
• This language is a variety of German.
• Status is 5: Developing.
• It writes with the German alphabet, which uses the same 26 letters as English, plus three umlauts (ae, oe, and ue) and an essett.
• ISO code: GSW
• Again, I don't anticipate difficulty finding text...the Wikipedia page names a few texts written in Alemannic which I may use as a starting point.,,,