User:Tmou1/Language selection
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Biak
- ISO 639-3: bhw [1]
- Biak is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000-70,000 people in Biak and other small islands near Western New Guinea. [2]
- Speakers of Biak skew older, and most are also fluent in Malay. [3]
- Speakers of Biak are predominantly Christian. [4]
- Biak seems to be an agglutinative language like Malay or Indonesian. [5] describes how verbs are modified with either prefixes or infixes, depending on the beginning of the verb.
- Writing: Latin script. [6]
Resources
- Dictionary and several texts with English translations: [7]
- Biak prayers and songs: [8]
- PhD dissertation written on Biak: [9]
- OLAC page: [10]
Lezgian
- ISO 639-3: lez [11]
- Lezgian is a Northeast Caucasian language and a member of the Lezgic language family, with about 800,000 speakers. Many Lezgian speakers are in Southern Dagestan and northern parts of Azerbaijan. [12]
- The Lezgins are mainly Sunni Muslim. [13]
- Lezgian is an agglutinative language. It has 18 cases (most of them locative cases) which are formed by agglutinating suffixes. It has no grammatical gender, and two types of declensions. [14]
- Writing: Arabic, Latin, currently Cyrillic. [15]
Resources
Denaʼina
- ISO 639-3: tfn [19]
- Denaʼina is an Alaskan Athabaskan language spoken by about 75 native speakers. Part of why it has become endangered is the Alaskan schools forbid teaching or learning the language. [20]
- Denaʼina is a polysynthetic language. The basic word order is SOV. [21]
- Writing: Latin [22]
