User:Rkamal1/Language selection

I am a CS major, so I would like to partner up with someone who is more familiar with linguistics. I have no preference as to who exactly that someone may be. In terms of languages, my ranked preferences are: Central Kurdish, Gurani, and Mazandarani. All of these are Indo-Iranian languages, which is the broad family of languages I am interested in working with.

Central Kurdish

• ISO 639-3: ckb
• Status: Provincial (2)
• Script: Variant of Arabic (though there is also a Latin script)
• No. speakers: 4 million
• Morphological typology: Agglutinative

Central/Sorani Kurdish is mostly spoken in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq, but it is also popular in Iran and parts of Sweden. I have a personal connection to the language as it is my native tongue, which makes it my first preference. On the other hand, it is an official language of Iraq and has some Apertium support, so it may not be the quintessential "under-resourced" language to pursue for the purposes of this course. In particular, I cannot develop a morphological analyzer for the language, as one already exists. Still, I am listing it because Prof. Washington hinted at his willingness to make exceptions where there are personal reasons to choose a language.