User:Eschalk1/Language selection

I'm interested in working with Courtney Dalton on this project. I think we'd work well together because we're both Bryn Mawr students and I'm a Comp Sci student and she's a Linguistics student!

I'm interested in working on

• Standard Tibetan

Morphological typology: Analytic, ergative and tonal. Basic information: 1.2 million from 1990 census, spoken in the "Tibet Autonomous Region," probably also exposed to Chinese, Nepalese, and Hindi, very conservative orthography. ISO codes include ISO 639-1, bo, ISO 639-2, tib and bod, and ISO 639-3, bod. Sources: Lots of texts available online, from translations to coursebooks to libraries.

• Syriac/Neo-Aramaic

Morphological typology: Fusional. Basic information: 152,000 speakers, spoken in Iraq (Dahuk and Ninawa governorates), member of macrolanguage (Syriac) and lots of exposure to related languages in the region, often with a good degree of intelligibility. written in the Syriac alphabet. ISO codes include ISO 639-2 and 639-3 are both syc. Sources: Good number of texts available (at least there are bible translations and a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.)

• Lakota

Morphological typology: Agglutinative, no passives, non-tonal. Basic information: 2,100 speakers, increasing, spoken throughout Northern Central United States, most speakers also know English, uses Latin script (no written form). ISO 639-9 is lkt. Sources: Tweets?!?!? That's so cool!!!,,,