User:Egutier1/Language selection

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I would like to work with Danielle because they have a stronger computer background (I have a strong linguistics background), and we both want to work on languages spoken in Latin America.

I would like to work on:

Miskito [1]

Speech Community

ISO Code: MIQ

Miskitu is a language of the Misumalpan language family, and is the native language of the Miskito people in eastern Nicaragua and Honduras. Wikipedia claims that there are about 150,000-200.000 MIskito people, but provide no source to support that claim. Ethnologue claims that there were 150,000 speakers in Nicaragua, and cite a 1993 census. That same page then goes to claim that there are about 180,000 ethnic Miskitos combined between Nicaragua and neighboring Honduras.

Unlike other indigenous groups, Miskito people have the power of the law on their side in that they administer two autonomous regions within Nicaragua that together make up nearly half of the country (23,000 mi^2, a little less than the area of West Virginia). Despite such, they often find themselves in conflict with people from the western part of Nicaragua illegally settling on their land, while the central government turns a blind eye.

Grammer

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Carribean Hindustani [2]

Speech Community

ISO Code: HNS


Grammer

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As of 2019, there already exists readily accessible accurate Miskito text online, among the available resources are Bible translated in Miskito, more than one grammarlink title, and a dictionary[3].

Belizean Creole [4]

Speech Community

ISO Code: BZJ


Grammer

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