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== Seneca ==
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=== Basic Info ===
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''ISO 639-3: see''
  
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Seneca is a language spoken in upstate New York on the Allegheny, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda reservations. Currently ethnologue classifies the language as 8a, Moribund, and there are <100 speakers remaining.[https://www-ethnologue-com/language/see] It is considered to be a poly-synthetic agglutinative, and has a rich inflectional morphology system that uses both prefixation and suffixation.[https://tripod.haverford.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/vi0ija/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9780520961647]
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=== Source Availability ===
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There is an active revitalization effort, so many sources are available online.
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* Iroquois creation story [https://senecalanguage.com/todawahsawe/an-iroquois-creation-story/]
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* Seneca Morphology and Dictionary [https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1323]
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* More sources [http://www.language-archives.org/language/see#primary_text]
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== Lakota ==
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=== Basic Info ===
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''ISO 639-3: lkt''
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Lakota is a language spoken primarily in North and South Dakota. Currently enthnologue classifies the language as 8a, Moribund, and there are ~2100 speakers.[https://www-ethnologue-com/language/lkt] Lakota is an agglutinative language with inflectional morphology. The language uses mostly prefixation but there is also some infixation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050405024744/http:/lakxotaiyapi.freecyberzone.com/sk1uni.htm]
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=== Source Availability ===
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* Online corpora [http://zia.aisri.indiana.edu/~corpora/lakota.php]
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== Tiwi ==
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=== Basic Info ===
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''ISO 639-3 tiw''
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Tiwi is a language spoken in Bathurst and Melville islands in Australia. It is classified by ethnologue as 5* developing, and there are 2,040 speakers according to the 2016 census.[https://www-ethnologue-com.ezproxy.haverford.edu/language/tiw] Traditional Tiwi is highly polysynthetic, but modern Tiwi is isolating language with some inflectional morphology. The exact number of speakers of traditional Tiwi is unknown.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwi_language#cite_note-15]
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=== Source Availability ===
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* Language texts [http://www.language-archives.org/language/tiw#primary_text]
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[[Category:sp21_LanguageSelection]][[Category:Seneca]][[Category:Lakota]][[Category:Tiwi]]

Latest revision as of 18:20, 15 February 2021

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Seneca

Basic Info

ISO 639-3: see

Seneca is a language spoken in upstate New York on the Allegheny, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda reservations. Currently ethnologue classifies the language as 8a, Moribund, and there are <100 speakers remaining.[1] It is considered to be a poly-synthetic agglutinative, and has a rich inflectional morphology system that uses both prefixation and suffixation.[2]

Source Availability

There is an active revitalization effort, so many sources are available online.

  • Iroquois creation story [3]
  • Seneca Morphology and Dictionary [4]
  • More sources [5]

Lakota

Basic Info

ISO 639-3: lkt

Lakota is a language spoken primarily in North and South Dakota. Currently enthnologue classifies the language as 8a, Moribund, and there are ~2100 speakers.[6] Lakota is an agglutinative language with inflectional morphology. The language uses mostly prefixation but there is also some infixation.[7]

Source Availability

  • Online corpora [8]

Tiwi

Basic Info

ISO 639-3 tiw

Tiwi is a language spoken in Bathurst and Melville islands in Australia. It is classified by ethnologue as 5* developing, and there are 2,040 speakers according to the 2016 census.[9] Traditional Tiwi is highly polysynthetic, but modern Tiwi is isolating language with some inflectional morphology. The exact number of speakers of traditional Tiwi is unknown.[10]

Source Availability

  • Language texts [11]