User:Arobey1/Language selection

I would like to work with Kevin Murphy (User:Kmurphy4). He has a much stronger background in linguistics than I do, which will complement my past work in computer science for this class.

Three languages we are thinking about are:

• Mapudungun - Mapudungun
  • Mapudungun is a language isolate, meaning that is not historically or linguistically related to other languages; some sources indicate that there is some lexical influence from the Quechuan languages and from Spanish
  • It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina
  • Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive
  • There are four main dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south

• Futuna
• Wichí

Sources:

• http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language

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