User:Nfeldba1/Language selection

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Language Preferences

  1. Guaraní
  2. Chamorro
  3. Khasi

Guaraní

Morphological typology

For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?

Basic Information

  • Specifically Paraguayan Guarani
  • Total number of speakers: 4,650,000 [1]
  • Guaraní is spoken mainly throughout South America[1], especially in Paraguay and Bolivia, where it is an official language
  • Spanish is also an official language in many of the countries in which Guaraní is spoken
  • Guaraní is not currently endangered, and is widely spoken in Paraguay.
  • The orthography follows the Latin script
  • ISO code: gug

Text Sources

Chamorro

Morphological typology

For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?

Basic Information

  • How many speakers are there
  • Where do they live
  • What other languages might they know
  • What is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations
  • Is there a normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features)?
  • Provide ISO codes used for the language, especially three-letter ones.

Text Sources

Khasi

Morphological typology

For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?

Basic Information

  • How many speakers are there
  • Where do they live
  • What other languages might they know
  • What is the status of the language in terms of its transmission to current and future generations
  • Is there a normative orthography of some sort? What is the orthography like (what script / any interesting features)?
  • Provide ISO codes used for the language, especially three-letter ones.

Text Sources

Guaraní

Chamorro

Khasi
  1. ↑ Ethnologue