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Revision as of 22:57, 18 January 2017
Contents
Language Preferences
- Guaraní
- Chamorro
- Khasi
Guaraní
Morphological typology
For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?
Basic Information
- Specifically Paraguayan Guarani
- Total number of speakers: 4,650,000 [1]
- Guaraní is spoken mainly throughout South America[1], especially in Paraguay and Bolivia, where it is an official language [2][3]
- Spanish is also an official language in many of the countries in which Guaraní is spoken [4][5]
- Guaraní is not currently endangered, and is widely spoken in Paraguay. [6]
- The orthography follows the Latin script [7]
- ISO code: gug [8]
Text Sources
Wikipedia pages have been written in Guaraní, such as: https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Casaccia
Chamorro
Morphological typology
For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?
Basic Information
- Total number of speakers: 58,000 [9]
- Chamorro is spoken throughout Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands [10]
- Chamorro speakers may also know English and/or Carolinian [11][12]
- Chamorro is classified as "vulnerable."[13] It is taught at the University of Guam. [14]
- The orthography follows the Latin script [15]
- ISO code: cha [16]
Text Sources
It is harder to find text sources for Chamorro. One link containing text comes from: http://ns.gov.gu/legends.html.
Khasi
Morphological typology
For each language, determine as best you can with the resources available a morphological typology of the language. E.g., is it primarily isolating, agglutinative, etc., and how do you know? Are there patterns in that language that reflect more than one morphological type?
Basic Information
- Total number of speakers: 843,000 in India [17]
- Khasi is spoken in India and Bangladesh by the Khasi people[18]
- Khasi is no longer endangered [19] [20]
- The orthography now follows the Latin script [21]
- ISO code: kha [22]
Text Sources
An online newspaper is written in Khasi: http://www.mawphor.com/
Categories
GuaraníReferences
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamorro_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/846
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamorro_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ "The Khasi language is no longer in danger". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_language
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Ethnologue