User:Ltarlin1/Language selection

My top three language choices, in order of preference:

Chamorro

Morphological typology

Agglutinative language (according to wikipedia). Example data shows how affixes can be added to a root to modify the word.

Basic info

• 58,000 speakers in all countries (25,800 in Guam, as of 2013)
• Mostly spoken in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
• National language of Guam, being taught at University of Guam
• Has shown significant decrease in fluency in the last century
• Some mutual intelligibility with Spanish
• Uses Latin script
• ISO codes ch and cha

This information comes from and .

Finding text

I found a site, which claims to have a partial Bible translation in Chamorro , so hopefully that's actually a legitimate site. I might be able to find a Wikipedia page in Chamorro if that doesn't end up working for some reason.

Lingala

Morphological typology

Agglutinative language (according to wikipedia). Example data shows how affixes can be added to a root to modify the word.

Basic info

• 2,146,210 speakers in whole world (2,040,000 in Democratic Republic of Congo as of 2000)
• Spoken in DRC
• Provincial language, which is the tier below national language
• Borrowed words from French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese
• Somewhat flexible orthography according to Wikipedia, but Ethnologue says Latin script
• ISO codes ln and lin

This information comes from and .

Finding text

I found a short story here, but don't know how reliable the source is. I think I should be able to find a page, though.

Lakota

Morphological typology

Agglutinative (according to wikipedia). I couldn't find much information about this, though.

Basic info

• Only about 2,000 speakers, mostly in USA (as of 1997)
• Spoken in northern midwest United States
• Very threatened, though it is one of the largest Native American language communities
• Mutual intelligibility with Dakota, another Sioux language
• Uses Latin script
• ISO code lkt

This information comes from and .

Finding text

I found a large set of writings, but it labels it as Dakota instead of Lakota. I'm not sure at this point how similar the two are, though. I can probably find a page, though? I think?