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Contents
Puyuma
Morphological typology
Puyuma has 4 types of focus (actor, object, referent, and instrumental), 3 verbal aspects (perfect, imperfect, future), 2 modes (imperative and hortative future) and many affixes (perfect, imperfect, future, hortative future, imperative, etc). [1]
Basic Information
Puyuma is an Austronesian language spoken by one of the indigenous groups on the east coast of Taiwan. There are about 10,800 speakers. Speakers of the Puyuma language also speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien. The ISO code for the language is pyu. The orthography used to be Han script, but it's no longer in use. The orthography now is Latin script. [2]
Resources Available
There are Bible portions translated in 1990. There are grammar references and web pages that talk about Puyuma language.
Luiseño
Morphological typology
Luiseño is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.[5]
Basic Information
Luiseño is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern California. There are 35 speakers, [6] and thus the language is critically endangered/nearly extinct. The language is shifting to English. The orthography is Latin script. ISO code is lui. [7]
Resources Available
There's plenty of resources/texts available, including texts in the Wikipedia page. There are also recordings documented by linguist John Peabody Harrington. There are also archives made available by the Smithsonian Institution. [8]
Maldivian
Morphological typology
The nouns in Maldivian inflect for definiteness, number, and case. The verbs are characterized by a derivational relationship between various verb forms.[9]
Basic Information
Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Maldives. There are 331,000 speakers; people who speak this language also speak Hindi or Urdu. It uses Thaana script.[10]
Resources Available
There's a lot of resources available online. There are researches that talk about Maldivian writing system, including sample text in Maldivian. There are also Bible portions available. [11]
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyuma_language]
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pyu]
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/27864198]
- ↑ https://journals.openedition.org/moussons/132?lang=en#ftn9]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise%C3%B1o_language]
- ↑ http://multitree.org/codes/lui.html]
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lui]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise%C3%B1o_language]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian_language#Writing_system]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian_language#Writing_system]
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/div]
