User:Lpark4/Language selection

Who I want to work with: I will work with Penelope Languages I would like to work with:

• Luri
• Trinidadian Creole
• Belizean Creole

Morphological Types:

• Luri- I could not find anything concrete, but I believe Luri would most closely be qualified as an Agglutinative language. This is because it is said that Luri is very similar to the standard Persian Language, and the standard Persian language is dominated by the use of suffixes. And finally, the Agglutinative language typology rely on discrete particles such as suffixes or/and prefixes. I could not concretely find if Luri follows any other morphological types.
• Trinidadian Creole - Dominantly follows an analytic language pattern. This is because it relies more on word order and function on words, rather than on inflection morphology. I believe it doesn't really follow other morphological types.
• Belizean Creole - Also follows an analytic language pattern. Focuses on word order, particles, and function on words rather than on inflectional morphology.

Basic Information

• Luri - About 4-5 million native speakers. They live in small villages in Iran. They may also know the standard Persian Language as it is closely related to it. Luri is in critical endangerment, with native speakers rapidly deceasing each year. There seems to not have a normative orthography of some sort. The ISO code is ldd
• Trinidadian Creole - About 1 million native speakers. They live in Trinidad and Tobago. They probably know some standard English. It seems to not be in critical endangerment, as it has a steady amount of native speakers each year. There is a normative orthography. The national standard is Trinidadian and Tobagonian English. The ISO code is trf
• Belizean Creole- About 150,000 native speakers. They live in Belize. National Kriol Council began standardizing the orthography of the language. They also may know Miskito Coastal Creole, as it is closely related to it. The ISO code is bzj.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizean_Creole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidadian_Creole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luri_language Written PDFs

• I found easy to find written text of Belizean Creole. Here is an example: https://www.scriptureearth.org/data/bzj/PDF/00-WNTbzj-web.pdf
• For Luri and Trinidadian Creole, I found it difficult to find extensive text. I could only really find websites describing the language in great detail.,,,