User:Pwheele1/Language selection
Language Selection
Partner Preference
Someone very knowledgeable about linguistics. Computer Science is my specialty.
Language Preferences
Pontic Greek
Morphological Typology
Pontic Greek practices conjugation and declension with suffixes, so I believe it is somewhat agglutanative. [1]
Basic Information
- ISO 639-3: pnt. [1]
- It has used the Greek, Turkish, and Cyrillic alphabet.[1] Greek seems to be the most prominent one online.
- The 778,000 speakers inhabit Greece, Turkey, and several countries in Eastern Europe. [1]
Materials
Given what I have found in a couple hours, I'm fairly confident I can locate a few pages of text.
- Hellenic Language Boy Blog [2]
- Pontic Greek Wikipedia [3]
- Pontic Greek Narratives [4] [5]
- Pontic Corpora from the University of Leipzig. [6]
Kanza
I understand this language doesn't have many speakers, but I easily found high-quality resources.
Morphological Typology
Kanza attatches pronouns and prepositions to verbs via prefixes.[7] Kanza is so verb-based that it lacks adjectives. [7]
Basic Information
- ISO 639-3: ksk. [8]
- 12 L2 speakers. [9]
- The Kaw Nation inhabit Oklahoma and Kansas. [10]
- Like many Native American languages, its alphabet is based on English.
Materials
I have already located a dictionary [11] and several pages of text.[12]
Tigre
Morphological Typology
Tigre contains both synthetic and analytic qualities.
On the synthetic side, it indicates cases by adding suffixes and changing the stems of words.[13]
On the other hand, the language indicates some pronouns by both words and suffixes, while others must stand on their own.[13]
Basic Information
- ISO 639-3: tig [13]
- 250,000 – 1.05 million L1 speakers.[13]
- Speakers live in Eritrea and Sudan.[13]
- Tigre has used both the Ge'ez and Arabic script as an alphabet. [13] Ge'ez seems to have a fixed amount of letters.
Materials
- Supposedly has the Bible but I haven't found any copies online.
- Found a language course. [14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pontic Greek Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek
- ↑ Blog https://helleniclanguageboy.tumblr.com/post/618528370100191232/pontic-greek-was-historically-spoken-throughout
- ↑ https://pnt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BD_%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1
- ↑ https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/islandora/object/tla:1839_00_0000_0000_0021_5149_9?asOfDateTime=2018-03-02T11:00:00.000Z
- ↑ http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/olac/record.html?id=www_mpi_nl_lat_1839_00_0000_0000_0021_5149_9
- ↑ https://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/en/download/pontic
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.kawnation.com/WebKanza/LangResources/nglshknzdctnry2012.pdf
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansa_language
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/ksk/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaw_people
- ↑ http://www.kawnation.com/WebKanza/LangResources/nglshknzdctnry.pdf
- ↑ http://www.kawnation.com/WebKanza/LangResources/kanzareader.pdf
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigre_language
- ↑ http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gasmerom/Eritrean_languages/tigre/