User:Cliu1/Language selection

Grouping preferences: I'd like to be in a group with other Bi-Co students if possible, just so it is easier to work together in person. Here are the languages I am considering:

Puyuma

• Basic information:
  • Austronesian
  • ISO: pyu
  • Speaker population: 1,000
  • Spoken in Taitung County in Eastern Taiwan. Speakers are mostly bilingual in Mandarin Chinese and/or Min Chinese, and some also speak Japanese.
  • Status: 8a (Moribund)
  • Orthography: Latin script
• Morphological typology: agglutinative, example: Temakaw (steal, active voice); tu=Takaw-aw (3.GEN=steal-patient voice); tu=Takaw-ay=ku (3.GEN=steal-locative voice=1S.NOM). (source: Teng, Stacy Fang-ching (2007). A Reference Grammar of Puyuma, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan)
• Finding text: There are pedagogical resources by the Taiwan Council of Indigenous Peoples, such as materials for the indigenous language proficiency test and an online talking textbook, although they are Puyuma-Chinese. There is also a wordlist as part of the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. It seems like there is a translation of the bible but I have not managed to find a digital version.