User:Ylhamo1/Language selection
I would like to work with Yue Zhang and Levin Ho.
Order of preference:
Amdo Tibetan
Morphological typology: SOV; many onset clusters
Basic information:
- How many speakers are there: 1,800,000 (2005 C. Lhungrub)
- Where do they live: Gansu province: Tianzhu autonomous county; Sichuan province: Aba (Ngaba) and Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefectures; Xizang Autonomous Region: Guoluo (Golog), Haibei, Hainan, and Huangnan autonomous prefectures; Qinghai province: Gannan and Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous prefectures.
- What other languages might they know: Chinese, Thewo and Choni (Bradley 1997), maybe Kham Tibetan
- What is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations:
- Normative orthography of some sort?
- What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features / multiple official/historical orthographies / etc.)?
- ISO codes: adx
We have a English-Chinese dictionary of the spoken Amdo language.
Gyalrong
Morphological typology:
Basic information: How many speakers are there: Where do they live: What other languages might they know: What is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations: Normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features / multiple official/historical orthographies / etc.)? ISO codes:
how likely it will be for you to find at least a few pages' worth of text in this language.
Kham Tibetan
Morphological typology:
Basic information: How many speakers are there: Where do they live: What other languages might they know: What is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations: Normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features / multiple official/historical orthographies / etc.)? ISO codes:
how likely it will be for you to find at least a few pages' worth of text in this language.,,,
