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Elizabeth and I have agreed to work together this semester. WDENGLE1 (talk) 17:48, 23 January 2022 (EST)

We'll be working on Mixe. See below for other languages I considered.


Ngaanyatjarra

  • ISO 639-3: ntj.
  • An indigenous language of Western Australia, particularly Warburton.
  • about 1,100 native speakers (as of 2016 census).
  • Morphological typology: synthetic? (the WP article refers to afixation).
  • Written exclusively in the Latin script without diacritics, so encoding text/a keyboard layout should be trivial (just use English's).

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Low German

  • ISO 639-3: nds.
  • West Germanic language variety spoken mainly in Northern Germany, with closely related dialects spoken in the northeastern part of the Netherlands.
  • The language is referred to in itself as Plattdütsch among other names.
  • Estimated 4.35–7.15 million native speakers.
  • Morphological classification: synthetic (declension of adjectives/nouns and conjugation of verbs described on enwp).
  • Latin script/based on German orthography (SASS writing style) so the German keyboard layout should suffice.

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Balinese

  • ISO 639-3: ban.
  • Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali as well as Northern Nusa Penida, Western Lombok, Eastern Java, Southern Sumatra, and Sulawesi.
  • Native speakers: 3.3 million (as of 2000 census).
  • Morphological typology: synthetic?
  • Written both in Latin script and in its own script, though primarily older texts are written in the latter. This could pose challenges (my screen reader reads Balinese characters as hex codes).

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