User:Dcharte1/Language selection
I'd like to work with Gregory.
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Languages
I'm most interested in working with Chukchi, Aleut, and Nganasan.
Chukchi
Typology
Chukchi is considered a polysynthetic language.[1] It utilizes noun incorporation, agglutination, and case marking, as in the example found here: [1]. According to Spencer, the incorporation interacts with other processes in the language.
About
There are around 5,000 Chukchi speakers, almost exclusively in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in far eastern Russia. As of 2010, this represents about a third of the ethnic population. There are very few monolingual speakers; nearly all Chukchi speakers speak Russian, too. Within Chukotka the language is used to some extent in TV and radio as well as in business. The literary canon is quite minimal. Fewer and fewer Chukchi children are learning their language; although it is used as the primary language of instruction in elementary schools throughout the region, Russian is used thereafter. Ethnologue considers Chukchi to be threatened (6b). Chukchi has a standardized orthography: a modified Cyrillic alphabet. Between 1931 and 1937 a Latin-based alphabet was used officially.[2]
Information
Parts of the Bible have been translated into Chukchi (here: [2]). I have also found a Chukchi grammar (here: [3])
