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Working with Ziv Stern [1]
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Burushaski
Basic Information
Burushaski (bsk) is spoken by 96,800 individuals in parts of northern Pakistan. Ethnologue gives it the status 6a, Vigorous, and it is gaining users. According to the Burushaski Language Documentation Project, the Burushaski is mostly spoken rather than written, although it does have both an Arabic and a Roman orthography. Burushaski is considered a linguistic isolate, and appears to be either agglutinative or fusional based on the linguistic analysis provided. [2]
Resources
A number of basic wordlists, recordings, and linguistically analyzed Roman-alphabet transcriptions and translations of stories and anecdotes are available through the Language Documentation Project [3]. The same group also provides a grammatical sketch for the language.
Sources
- University of Texas group working on documentation:
http://ltc.unt.edu/~sadafmunshi/Burushaski/index.html http://ltc.unt.edu/~sadafmunshi/Burushaski/language/orthography.html http://burushaskilanguage.com/language-data-catalog/
I'saka
Basic Information
I'saka, sometimes known as Krisa, is a language of Papua New Guinea spoken by 420 individuals. Ethnologue classifies it as 6a, Vigorous. It does have tone and uses only around 8 consonants and 6 vowels. According to Wikipedia, I'saka has morphological variations for case, number, and gender.
Resources
Resources for this language are scarce. One sketch grammar exists for the language and no other data sources could be easily obtained.
