User:Ywang13/Language selection

Pair Information

I'll be working with Zachary Robinson for the project.

Language Preference

Lakota

Basic Information

• Region: Primarily North Dakota and South Dakota
• Number of Speakers: About 2000
• Current Status: Vulnerable
• Orthography: Standard Lakota Orthography
• ISO: lkt

Morphology

Lakota is a polysynthetic language. The word order is S-O-V, and it is one of the head-initial languages. There are two paradigms for verb inflection. Most morphemes in each paradigm utilize prefixes, but there are cases where suffix and infix are used. There are no passives in Lakota.

Fruilian

Basic Information

• Region: Friuli, Italy
• Number of Speakers: 600,000
• Current Status: Definitely Endangered
• Orthography: Latin script
• ISO: fur

Morphology

Friulian is a fusional language. In Friulian, nouns are either masculine or feminine. The word order is S-V-O. Similar to Italian, most attributive adjectives are placed after the noun, whereas number and posssesives before the noun.

Nauru

Basic Information

• Region: Republic of Nauru
• Number of Speakers: About 6000
• Current Status: Severely Endangered
• Orthography: Nauruan alphabet
• ISO: nau

Morphology

No written grammar of Nauru has been compiled. It's difficult to find text resources in this language.