User:Spark9/Language selection
Pair Selection
I would like to work with Nelson Dufitimana.
Languages of Interest
- Twi
- Navajo
- Tigre
Twi
Morphological Typology
Twi has analytical morphology as it is a tonal language. There is some level of distributed morphology with plural words within Twi, meaning that there are small changes to the word when the word is pluralized. Though Twi is analytical, it does have some inflectional morphology, especially with the use of affixes. There are two types of affixes used: derivational and inflectional. When a derivational affix is added to the root of a word, a new word is formed. Inflectional affixes do not change the word. Instead, they modify the word to change their grammatical components.
About the Language
Twi has about 17-18 million speakers that live in mainly in southern and central Ghana. It is spoken by the Akan people, which is the largest of the 17 ethnic groups in Ghana. Some other languages Twi speakers may know various other dialects, which include the Akan language, Fante, Bono, Asante, and Akuapem. There are many second-language speakers in Ghana, and 80% of the Ghanaian population speaks Twi as their primary or secondary language. They use the writing system called Adinkra Nkyea with consonants and vowels that are dictated tonally. The ISO codes used include: ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2, and ISO 639-.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twi
Availability of Resources
It is very likely that I will find at least a few pages worth of text in Twi. There are translations of the Bible, short excerpts, and other texts that are available online.
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Tigre
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