User:Kdandy1/Language selection

Preference List

1. Yaeyama
2. Northern Ndebele
3. Kabyle

Language Details

Language	ISO 639-3	Morphological Typology	Basic Information	Text Availability
Yaeyama	rys	Agglutinative: like Japanese, Yaeyama has a high amount of morphemes per word, and suffixal morphology where the suffixes are easily differentiable from the main meaning-carrying morpheme.	A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family. Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70. Orthography: Katakana, one of the Japanese syllabaries. Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself. Because the Yaeyama Islands are relatively spread out, the language has grown apart into many dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.	I eventually found that the article I was using earlier actually has a great multi-page text example complete with glosses and translation!
Northern Ndebele	nde	Synthetic, with some agglutinative and some inflected aspects.
Kabyle	kbe