User:Tzhu1/Language selection
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Shixing
Shixing, or Xumi, is spoken by roughly 1,800 people (as of 2000), 1,000 of which are monolingual. Some speakers are also fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Central Tibetan, or Pumi. Speakers of this language live in Sichuan Province in Southwestern China, along the banks of the Shuiluo River. They identify as Xumi Tibetan but are considered simply "Tibetan" by the Chinese government. Shixing is an agglutinative language and also tonal.
I think I can find a page of text - researcher Katia Chirkova seems to have published a lot of material on the language.
ISO code: sxg
Sources: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI615588 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00483979/document https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sxg
Pirahã
Pirahã is an agglutinative language. There are about 360 speakers; they live in Amazonas, Brazil. Most of them only speak Pirahã, although some know Portuguese, particularly the men. Pirahã has been cited as evidence in favor of many controversial claims about the nature of language. Their community is slowly becoming less isolated, but for now their language still seems to be thriving. There are concerns that all the scientific interest their language has generated is resulting in their exploitation.
I would definitely be able to find a page's worth of text on the internet due to the overwhelming number of researchers (linguists and psychologists) curious about the language.
ISO code: myp
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language http://www.language-archives.org/language/myp https://www.ethnologue.com/language/myp http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/brazil-s-piraha-tribe-living-without-numbers-or-time-a-414291.html
Buginese
Buginese, an agglutinative language belonging to the Austronesian family, is spoken on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi by about 5 million people (2000). Some of its speakers also use Balantak, Fordata, or Indonesian. There are several enclaves of speakers elsewhere in Indonesia and outside Indonesia. There is a Buginese script, but it is no longer in use; most speakers use the Latin alphabet instead.
I think I would be able to find a page of text online in this language.
ISO code: bug
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language http://www.ancientscripts.com/bugis.html https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bug http://www.omniglot.com/writing/bugis.htm,,,
