User:Nfeldba1/Language selection
List in order of preference three languages you would like to work on this semester.
- Guaraní
- Chamorro
- Khasi
For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?
Determine basic information about each language. 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, is there a normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features)? Provide ISO codes used for the language, especially three-letter ones. Basically all of this information should be findable on ethnologue and wikipedia (in one language or other), but feel free to use any source that seems reliable (academic papers, census data, etc.). Cite the sources you use.
Give some estimation of how likely it will be for you to find about a page's worth of text in this language. (If it's not at all likely, you probably should find some other language to work on.)
Include a category tag for and one for the name of each language. You should have four categories on your page, e.g. ,, and one each for the other two languages. Make use of MediaWiki formatting markup. E.g., each language can be a section, data can be formatted as bullet points out in tables, citations should make use of proper macros, etc. Note that conflicts of first choice will be resolved by the first person to post their interest in the language by the wiki getting their earlier choice, and the other party getting a subsequent choice.Guaraní Chamorro Khasi
