User:Sbhaska1/Language selection

Partner: Rohan Cherukuri

Language Selection: Saraiki, Garhwali, Lepcha

• 1. Saraiki

• Sources:

[1] [2] [3]

• Saraiki, which is similar to Punjabi in terms of morphology has absorbing morphology including inflectional and derivational morphemes (suffixes) to change the form and to derive new words.

• Primarily spoken in the South Western Punjab region of Pakistan

• Number of speakers: 25.9 million

Orthography: Written in either Urdu (with seven extra symbols) or Sindh ISO code: skr

It should be pretty easy to find a decent amount of Saraiki text. My partner and I were able to find multipls poems with a simple Google search.

• 2. Garhwali

• Source:

[4] [5]

• SOV typology

• Primarily spoken in Garhwali region of Indian Himalayas

• Number of speakers: 2.5 million

• Orthography: Devanagari, which is used by many Indian languages, including Hindi

ISO code: gbm

The wikipedia page has a list of many contemporary works in Garhwali, so it should be pretty easy to find text online

• 3. Lepcha

[6] [7]

• Shares similar morphology with Mahakiranti languages

• Primarily spoken in Sikkim, India by the Lepcha people

• Number of speakers: 57,000

• Orthography: Written using the Lepcha script

• ISO code: lep

It might be somewhat difficult to find Lepcha text considering there are very few speakers worldwide.