Language selection

Everyone should choose a language with at least some interesting morphological processes. Note: If you have a strong desire to work on language that is normally regarded as entirely "isolating", some accommodations may be made, but you should talk with the professor about it immediately.

Languages you may not choose

• No languages supported by Google translate, however poor-quality.
• No languages supported by Apertium. Check the following places:
  • full list of language pairs
  • all stable language modules
  • incubator - includes some language modules not in the above

Note: If you really want, you may select a language in Apertium's incubator, but you will basically be expected to start from scratch for each assignment and ignore what's available from Apertium except to augment your resources later

• No languages supported by Giellatekno.
• You'll need some text in this language, whether from a source online, an excerpt of published text that you type up, or sample sentences from a grammar. See Places to look for corpora for more info.

Random list of languages that might work

• Western Abenaki
• Kalmyk
• Blackfoot
• Xhosa
• Georgian
• Chamorro
• Lakota
• Shor