User:Abullen1/Language selection

Lab Partners: Keira Dandy and Jadyn Elliot

Chosen Languages Overview

1. Tulu [1] is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka, India with 1,850,000 total speakers | ISO: tcy
2. Ch'ol [2] is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Chiapas, Mexico with 255,000 total speakers | ISO: ctu
3. Awngi [3] is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia with 553,400 total speakers | ISO: awn

Tulu

Morphological Information

Tulu is an agglutinative language, similarly to most Dravidian languages. The following is taken directly from the Tulu language wiki page.

Tulu has five parts of speech: nouns (substantives and adjectives), pronouns, numerals, verbs, and particles.

Substantives have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and eight cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, ablative or instrumental, communicative, and vocative). According to Bhat, Tulu has two distinct locative cases. The communicative case is used with verbs like tell, speak, ask, beseech, inquire, and denotes at whom a message, an inquiry, or a request is aimed, as in "I told him." or "I speak to them." It is also used to denote the relationship with whom it is about, in a context like "I am on good terms with him." or "I have nothing against him." The plural suffix is -rŭ, -ḷu, -kuḷu, or -āḍḷu. The nominative case is unmarked, while the remaining cases are expressed by different suffixes.

Orthographic Information

The Tulu script, or Tigalari is used to write Tulu. It is closely related to the Malayalam script. It is recognized as being used as early as 1159 AD. [[4]]

Available Corpora

Abundant

Ch'ol

Available Corpora

Adequate

Awngi

Available Corpora

Adequate