User:Jmundo1/Language selection
This page lists Jake Mundo's possible language interests.
All information is from Ethnologue[1] unless otherwise noted.
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Kiowa (ISO: kio)
Basic Information
Kiowa has roughly 400 speakers mostly in west central Oklahoma. Kiowa appears to be synthetic or even agglutinative, as many morphemes seem to be able to combine into a word that can have the meaning of an entire proposition. (Inferred from the text linked below.) Language classified as "moribund" by Ethnologue.
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High likelihood of finding original texts; there is text available online[2], but the writing system does not seem to match the writing system claimed by Wikipedia[3], which might cause some confusion.
Kikuyu (ISO: kik)
Basic Information
Kikuyu or Gikuyu, which is spoken in many parts of Kenya, has approximately 6,623,000 speakers, with the number growing larger, as of 2009. L1 literacy rate is between 30% and 60%. Gikuyu seems to be mostly synthetic, although it is not entirely clear. Texts (such as the one linked below) can have somewhat long words that appear to be formed of numerous morphemes. Verb affixes in Kikuyu mark person, giving at least one example of an affix.
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The existence of text is basically guaranteed[4], and there is poetry and a bible translation in Kikuyu among other things. Indeed, a lack of resources is not a concern for this language; rather, the concern is that resources might already exist for Gikuyu given its size. No such resources have been located on Apertium or elsewhere yet, however.
Lakota (ISO: lkt)
Basic Information
Lakota has approximately 2,000 speakers throughout Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Wikipedia[5] claims the existence of prefixes and suffixes in Lakota, suggesting that it is probably a synthetic language.
