User:Sbhaska1/Language selection

Partner: Rohan Cherukuri

Language Selection: Saraiki, Garhwali, Lepcha

1. Saraiki

Sources: [1] [2] [3]

Saraiki, which is similar to Punjabi in terms of morphology has absorbing morphology including inflectional and derivational morphemes (suffixes) to change the form and to derive new words.

Primarily spoken in the South Western Punjab region of Pakistan

Number of speakers: 25.9 million

Orthography: Written in either Urdu (with seven extra symbols) or Sindh ISO code: skr

It should be pretty easy to find a decent amount of Saraiki text. My partner and I were able to find multipls poems with a simple Google search.

2. Garhwali

Source: [4] [5]

SOV typology

Primarily spoken in Garhwali region of Indian Himalayas

Number of speakers: 2.5 million

Orthography: Devanagari, which is used by many Indian languages, including Hindi ISO code: gbm

The wikipedia page has a list of many contemporary works in Garhwali, so it should be pretty easy to find text online

3. Lepcha [6] [7]

Shares similar morphology with Mahakiranti languages

Primarily spoken in Sikkim, India by the Lepcha people

Number of speakers: 57,000

Orthography: Written using the Lepcha script

ISO code: lep

It might be somewhat difficult to find Lepcha text considering there are very few speakers worldwide.