User:Mparker3/Language selection
From LING073
Partner: I really have no preference as to who I want to work with. If you have some personal connection to a language or strong motivation to do a specific one, that'd be really cool.
| Ladino | Fijian | Rohingya | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO code | lad | fij | rhg |
| Morphological Typology | Fusional - morphological similarities to Spanish language, which is well-documented as fusional | Isolating as far as I can tell, with a few instances of fusional morphological processes such as the case of possessives | Fusional - verb stems change form between different tenses, and verb endings change by subject. |
| Basic information | Indo-European language, about 100,000 speakers mainly centered in Jerusalem. Mainly used by Sephardic Jews, so speakers are commonly Hebrew speakers. Can be written with Hebrew, Cyrillic, and Latin scripts. Otherwise known as "Judeo-Spanish". ethnologue. |
Stanford's Jewish Studies Program has an extensive corpus of Ladino texts.