User:Rvelasc1/Language selection
For the language project, I would like to work with someone who knows linguistics well.
The following are my prospective languages for the course, with the first being my preferred choice:
- Miskito
- Tigre
- Beja
Contents
Miskito (Mískitu)
Information
ISO 639-3: miq
- Region: Nicaragua, Honduras
- Speakers: 180,000 [1]
Miskito is the most widely spoken of the Misumalpan family of languages (of which there are three members). It is influenced by its sister languages and also by English via Creole. Spanish is a relatively recent influence on the language.
It is inflectional and derivational, predominantly using suffixing. [2]
During the 20th century, Miskito was stifled by government pushes to learn Spanish. However, since the 1990s, preservation efforts of the language have increased. [3]
Resources
There are a number of grammar resources in the OLAC as well as examples of songs and text easily found from a web search.
Tigre
Information
ISO 639-3: tig
- Region: Eritrea
- Speakers: approx 800,000 [4]
Nouns are gendered, and the language is inflectional based on the many forms of the verb "to be." [5]
Resources
Beja
Information
ISO 639-3: bej
- Region: Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt
- Speakers: 1–2.2 million [6]
