User:Nstern1/Language selection

Working with Ceci Williamson [1]

Northwestern Kolami (kfb)

Basic Information [2]

• Population: 122,000
• Location: Various towns in eastern Maharashtra, India
• EGIDS: 5
• Classification: Dravidian, Central, Kolami-Naiki
• Use: Home, community. Also use Northern Gondi [gno], Telugu [tel]. Also use Marathi [mar], but with limited proficiency.
• Orthography: Devanagari

Typology [3]

• Strongly suffixing
• Productive full and partial reduplication
• Two genders
• Has case
• No grammatical evidentials
• SOV
• Postpositions

Sources

• Mentioned in "Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal" [4]
• Has a dictionary and grammar (and recent New Testament Translation) [5]
• Grammar (1955) [6]
• Section from "The Dravidian Languages" [7]

Koya (kff)

Basic Information

• Population: 362,000
• Location: Linguistic center is Chinturu, Andhra Pradesh, India
• EGIDS: 5
• Classification: Dravidian, South-Central, Gondi-Kui, Konda-Kui, Manda-Kui, Kui-Kuvi
• Use: Some also use Telugu [tel], but proficiency is low.
• Orthography: Devanagari, Latin (reportedly preferred by Koya leaders), Oriya, Telugu

Typology [8]

• Complex syllable structure
• Fixed initial stress
• Has case
• SOV
• Strongly suffixing
• Productive full and partial reduplication

Sources

• Dictionary [9]
• Grammar (1969,2008) [10]

Masalit (mls)

Basic Information [11]

• Population: 350,000
• Location: Gharb Darfur state
  • Many speakers fled to Chad due to war in Darfur (2011)
• EGIDS: 6a
• Classification: Nilo-Saharan, Satellite-Core, Satellites, Maban, Masalit
• Use: All ages. Most also use Sudanese Spoken Arabic, however, people in the central area and women have limited proficiency.
• Orthography: Latin

Typology [12]

• Strongly suffixing
• Definite & indefinite articles
• No gender or politeness distinction in pronouns
• No adpositions
• SOV
• Nom/Acc
• Has passives

Sources

• Glossed text (1989) [13]
• Grammar (1989) [14]
• Wordlist (1983) [15]
• Stories (1990) [16]