User:Doldham1/Language selection
This is a list of languages which I am interested in working on this semester. I do not have a strong preference between the two Ryukyuan languages.
Contents
Miyako Ryukyuan
Morphological Typology
Miyako is an agglutinative language[1]
Basic Information
There are a number of languages spoken on the Ryukyuan islands (located south of mainland Japan), each of which in turn has multiple dialects. [2] The dialects of Miyako include Ogami, Ikema, and Hirara, and there are at most 10,000-15,000 speakers of these various dialects combined.[1] Ryukyuan languages are written in katakana, and the ISO code for Miyako is mvi.[3]
Availability of Text
I should be able to find a sufficient corpus from various resources available online.[2][4]
Central Okinawan
Morphological Typology
Central Okinawan is an agglutinative language.[5]
Basic Information
There are at most 285,000 speakers of Central Okinawan.[6] Dialects include Shuri and Tsuken, and the ISO code is ryu.[7]
Availability of Text
I should be able to compile a sufficient corpus from papers available online.[5][8]
Ainu
Morphological Typology
Most sources obtained from a simple Google search indicate that Ainu is an agglutinative language, and describe it either as synthetic[9] or polysynthetic.[10]
Basic Information
Ainu is the language spoken by the people indigenous to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of present-day Japan. As a result of the Meiji government ban on the use of Ainu in 1869[11] the language has a very small number of speakers, with estimates ranging from 2-15.[12] However, in recent years there have been efforts made to revive the language. Ainu can be written in katakana or in romanji, and the ISO code is ain.[13]
Availability of Text
I am confident that I can find a page's worth of text in Ainu. There is a grammar in McCabe[14], and I have found additional samples online.[15][16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://lipp.ub.lmu.de/article/view/192
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mvi/19
- ↑ https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3852868/TOC#tabnav
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijhsse/v2-i11/12.pdf
- ↑ https://www.jlect.com/downloads/Number-of-Central-Okinawan-Speakers.pdf
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ryu/19
- ↑ https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b4329729
- ↑ http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/lehre/ws0910/languagesOfTheWorld/morphologicalTypology.pdf
- ↑ http://cblle.tufs.ac.jp/assets/files/publications/working_papers_02/section/055-072.pdf
- ↑ Together with the Ainu: History and Culture. (Sapporo: The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture, 2013.)
- ↑ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ain
- ↑ https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b1759780
- ↑ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212/guide
- ↑ https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI124799
