User:Arobey1/Language selection

I would like to work with Kevin Murphy (User:Kmurphy4). He has a much stronger background in linguistics than I do, which will complement my past work in computer science for this class.

Three languages we are thinking about are:

• Mapudungun
  • Mapudungun is a language isolate, meaning that is not historically or linguistically related to other languages; some sources indicate that there is some lexical influence from the Quechuan languages and from Spanish.
  • It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina
  • Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive
  • There are four main dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south. Within these dialect groups, there are eight dialect subgroups numbered I through VII
  • There was no system of writing before the Spanish arrived in the late 1500s/early 1600s
  • Mapudungun is an agglutinative language, meaning that it is composed of sequences of meaningful word elements (called morphemes) each of which belongs to a single grammatical category. Most verb phrases are formed from five or six morphemes
  • The numbers 1-10 are: 1 kiñe, 2 epu, 3 küla, 4 meli, 5 kechu, 6 kayu, 7 regle, 8 pura, 9 aylla, 10 mari
  • There have been some efforts to revitalize Mapudungun, but it remains the case that fewer than a third of all Mapuche children graduate eight grade, and there are no official language classes on Mapudungun
  • ISO language codes are ISO 639-2 (arn) and ISO 639-3 (arn)
  • I found this version of the Bible which I believe is written in Mapudungun: http://worldbibles.org/language_detail/eng/arn/Mapudungun

• Futuna
• Wichí

Sources:

• http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/agglutination-grammar

Language selection tag:,