indigenous language of the Americas of your choice

This extra-credit assignment encourages you to learn more about an indigenous tribe/community and the language they speak. When writing, please be mindful of the circumstances these people have undergone/continue to undergo, and honor the culture of your selected community/features of their language. 

 

1. Pick an indigenous language of the Americas of your choice, and give us a small linguistic description. (If you are stuck, you may use this link to input your zip code and find a language spoken by people native to your current region, if you like: https://native-land.ca/# (Links to an external site.)). 

Grading rubric will depend on the following criteria: 

• Due: on the day of the final (Wed Dec 15th). 
• Format: 12 point, Times New Roman, double-spaced. PDF, Word, or Pages documents only. 
• Length: The content should be no longer than two pages long (not counting the citations). 

• Citations: You must use five different sources, at least! List the source title(s) on a separate page, but there is no need for a full citation for this project. You can log into the CU library, and use these resources: Ethnologue.com, WALS.info, Wikipedia, or any references that Wikipedia uses. 
  • Example of citation on separate page:  
    • Sources: 
      • Navajo Language — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_language (Links to an external site.)

 Don’t forget to include information on the following—if available: 

1. Why you chose this language in particular.
1. What language family does it belong to?
2. What is the language’s endonym (if it has one), and what’s the story behind its exonym (what does the exonym mean; who gave it to them)?
2. Phonology:

1. Large/small?
2. What type of consonantal sounds (voice distinction, "exotic" sounds, rarer place of articulation, etc.)
3. What type of vowel sounds (nasal vowels, tones, length distinction, other features, etc.)

1. Morphology:
1. Morphological type (isolating, agglutinative, fusional, polysynthetic)
2. Grammatical relations (nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive, active agreement system.)  
3. How these relations surface (case markings on nouns, agreement markings on verbs, word order, etc.)
2. Syntax:
1. Basic word order.
2. Word order of noun and adjective—if applicable.
3. Socio-linguistics:
1. Status of language (endangered, extinct, moribund, etc.) 
2. Speakers (how many, average age, etc.)
3. Where is/was it spoken/territory?
4. Extra information:
1. Mention something unique or something has been written about the language in linguistic theory.

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