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17 January 2017
Hello! My name is Tai Vongsathorn Warner and I am a Computer Science and Linguistics double major. I like music, nature, embroidery, yoga, and just about anything complex and interesting. Cheers!
19 January 2017
Some languages I am interested in for this class:
Wamesa
Wamesa (ISO: wad) is a developing Austronesian language spoken by about 5000 people in Indonesia.[1] Due to its situation in the Indonesian/Papua New Guinean region, which is home to the most languages of any country in the world (with the possible exception of Nigeria), speakers of Wamesa commonly speak a multitude of other languages. Indonesian is the most common other language among Wamesa speakers. Wamesa is written in Latin script, using the letters a, b, c, d, e, g, i, j, k, m, n, ng, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, and w. It is analytical; most of its words are monomorphemic.[2]
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (ISO: nah) is a threatened Uto-Aztecan language spoken by 1.7 million people in the Tlaxcala and Puebla states of Central Mexico. In 1990 there were only 1000 monolingual speakers of Nahuatl. Spanish is by far the most common other language spoken by Nahuatl speakers. It is written using the Latin alphabet.[3] Nahuatl is an agglutinative, polysynthetic language. [4]
Warlpiri
Warlpiri (ISO: wbp) is a developing Australian language spoken by 2,510 people in mostly northern-central Australia. While there are myriad languages in the same region where Warlpiri is spoken, English is still the most common other language spoken by Warlpiri speakers. It is written in Latin script.[5] Warlpiri has very few roots, but a plethora of morphemes, meaning it is an agglutinative, synthetic language.
References
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wad
- ↑ Gasser, Emily A., Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology, (Connecticut: Yale University, 2014), 152
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/nhn
- ↑ Launey, M., Compound nouns vs. incorporation in classical Nahuatl (STUF-Language Typology and Universals, 1999), 347–364.
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wbp
