Languages Studied

Work at LLF displays a great diversity with respect to the languages under investigation:

• Afroasiatic : Semitic (Classical Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Mehri, Chaha, Tigre, Tigrinya, Hebrew, Maltese), Berber, Egyptian (Ancient, Coptic), Kuchitic (Somali), Chadic (Hausa)
• Altaic: Korean, Japanese, Turkic
• Australian : Dalabon, Enindhilyakwa, Jaminjung, Kuuk Thaayorre, Mparntwe Arrernte, Murrinh-Patha, Ngarinyin, Nyamal, Panyjima
• Austro-asiatic : Khmer, Vietnamese
• Austronesian : Amis, Taroko, Malagasy
• Celtic : Welsh, Breton
• Creoles : French-based (Haitian, Mauritian, Reunion), Portuguese-based (Kriyol de Guinée Bissau, Indo-Portuguese), Arabic (Nubi)
• Indoeuropean : Germanic (German, Bavarian, Dutch, Yiddish, English, Norwegian), Romance (French, Spanish, Gallo-Romance, Italian, Latin, Occitan, Romanian, Iberian Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese), Indo-Iranian (Armenian, Kurdish, Persian, Nepali), Slavic (Bulgarian, Russian, Czech), Baltic (Lithuanian), Modern Greek
• Finno-Ugrian : Finnish, Hungarian, Nenets, Estonian
• Otomanguan : Mazatec
• Niger-Congo : Bamun, fongbe, kiswahili, shingazidja, simakonde
• Sinitic : Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese dialects, Minnan (Taiwan)
• South-Caucasian : Laz
• Tupi : Karitiana
• Sign language: Italian Sign Language, French sign language