Word of the indefinite time-span
S.Twa also indigenous, like Kwisi etc. (Inskepe). Kwisi may have once had cattle?
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> Could you add a date and ref for the speaker numbers at Tangam and Milang? + Wish I could. Any numbers I give are from my own field notes.
> Also, feel free to quote your own publications on the importance of the language, but such subjective commentary should not be in Wikipedia's voice. + Point taken!
> Also, are the Padam a tribe, or a tribal people? + Depends on definitions. Padam are basically a cluster of clan groups that speak a particular way, primarily as defined by the speech of Damroh, the primary "Padam" virkwpollage. Linguistically, Padam can be considered a dialect of Adi, or a particular range within the Eastern Tani dialect chain.
Q: Is there a reason for the "()" after "Tangam language"? User:markwpost ( talk)
Don't edit war and reinstate your alteration. Please follow WP:BRD and discuss it at Talk:Anime. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 05:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Moved discussion to article talk page. Middayexpress ( talk) 15:10, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwamikagami,
I have seen that you have been policing/editing articles about the Dardic languages. I have been adding citations and information over the last couple days to the languages in that category. Time and again, I have run into vandalism/self-promotion by this guy under various accounts in most of the non-stub Dardic language pages. As a frequent contributor, is there any way you can help out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.165.84 ( talk) 23:07, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I notice that you're still using IPA-en to answer Pronunciation-needed requests. If you've created an automated process to do this, can we include a IPAc-en conversion? -- deflective ( talk) 17:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you did some edits to {{ IPAc-pl}} in the past. Could you help with adding mouseover tooltips to that template? I prepared a basic list to mirror the functionality of {{ H:IPA}}, all is explained at Template_talk:IPAc-pl#Mouseover. Any help would be appreciated. // Halibu tt 23:47, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamigami. I'm glad you are updating language articles to use Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013). The "infobox language" template with generate this with "ref = e17". But it generates a named reference that is usually used in other parts of a language article too. So look for <ref name=e16 /> and change them to e17. Otherwise we get the bright red "Cite error: The named reference e16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page)" messages. I'm fixing these as they turn up on the broken reference list. Thanks StarryGrandma ( talk) 19:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
We could semi-automate the conversions w AWB. The problem w doing it in the box, besides the fact that it says e17 in the box and not e16, is that there are about 40 legitimate links to e16 (and a smaller number to e15) from the box. There are also some intentional refs to e16 from the text, but those aren't generating errors. So, in articles that are generating errors, we could change the first cross-ref to a simple {{ e16}} ref. — kwami ( talk) 14:24, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello if you change e16 to e17 reference at Ethnologue please take a look at references section: Cite error: The named reference e16 was invoked but never defined. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tec%C3%B3atl_Mazatec&diff=next&oldid=544338196 Thanks -- Frze > talk 07:18, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
The usage "Náhuatl" is only a Spanish convention. The accent is not necessary in English and is not used in English publications about the language. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 15:42, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
hi Kwami, You seem to have gone on a personal crusade against Ethnologue. I see no good reason for that. Your term of "content fork" is just an excuse: why should these links be harder to maintain than all the thousands of extra links added every day on WP? I don't see your point. Ethnolinks were created for a reason. Note that I have nothing with SIL, actually I don't like the Ethnologue particularly, it's just a reference among others, where some people can find some info. Please refrain from removing massive amounts of data from pages without asking first on Talk pages; you know better. Womtelo ( talk) 19:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hello! i admire your so many contributions to Wikipedia. And i am awed that you were born on Saturday, because in Greece we have a tradition that people born on Saturday have a superior power, and if they curse, their curse is effective. My father was born on Saturday, too.
I m interested to know if you r African, and what your blood group is. (If you ask about me, i have a rare type, A rhesus negative). As to my article "Free Greek Language", i wrote it with capital L in the sense that all 3 words "Free Greek Language" are the name of that auxiliary language. If you permit me, i will make it capital again. I find many things interesting in your writings, if i have the time for it i wish to keep communicating with you. thank you. 888gowinda ( talk) 20:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Hello. I just want to make a comment on this edit. 'Item' can be syllabified either as 'i·tem' or as 'it·em.' This is why I suggested the word 'iodine' instead; it is always syllabified as i·o·dine. However, you were correct in reverting my other edit. -- Omnipaedista ( talk) 12:02, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Could you have a look at a comment of mine on the talk page there? It doesn't seem to get visited very often. Peridon ( talk) 14:46, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to query your edit [1] to Guatemalan Sign Language which removed the citation to Ethnologue as a source. If the contention is that it is not an RS for language articles please direct me to the discussion that so determined. If not it should certainly be included since I did, in fact, use it as a source when I first wrote the article. Eluchil404 ( talk) 03:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
No problem. It was actually such a challenge most especially the higher language nodes since I have to fix the range relative to other nearby groups and preexisting maps. Took me more than 2 hours for most of them, but for the sake of information! -- Pansitkanton ( talk) 14:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Why have you taken it upon yourself to reclassify Emilian and Romagnol as dialects of one unified language? There is a clear distinction, obvious to speakers of either. mg SH 09:49, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Emilian dialect -- Frze > talk 11:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Regarding my revert to the 50000 Quaoar article, [2] I initially looked at it because User:Memy9909 had been vandalising other articles, and I seem to have got confused between KBOs in general and classical Kuiper belt objects in particular - our article on the latter says that Pluto isn't one. Thanks for correcting my error. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Why are you removing the native languages map from the languages in India page? Jujhar.pannu ( talk) 21:55, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Some users have been working hard on Category:Pages with broken reference names.
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "FOOTNOTEZimmermann_2012" is not used in the content Can you take a look and work out what you were trying to do? Thanks -- Frze ( talk · contribs) 08:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwami, would you mind commenting at Talk:Motor Gun Boat? Many thanks. Shem ( talk) 19:44, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect IPA for English. Since you had some involvement with the IPA for English redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Cathfolant ( talk) 21:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
I have been engaged in a dispute at Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias for some time now that could be of relevance to the many pronunciations of non-English names throughout WP. It's a former featured article, and one of the contributors who got it to FA status objects to the pronunciation of the name Caxias being indicated, for a rotating set of reasons. Any input there would be appreciated, as we don't seem to be resolving it ourselves and hardly anyone else is watching the page. — ˈzɪzɨvə ( talk) 00:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwami,
You told me I need to fix links before retargeting IPA for English. But what links? I look at what links to IPA for English, and I see zero articles, and the only Wikipedia pages are archives (which you wouldn't normally retarget) and the Redirect for Discussion pages, which you obviously wouldn't retarget. What needs to be retargeted first? Ego White Tray ( talk) 06:17, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
I have noticed that you have undid the edit that i have done in the page ' Indus scrip'. I would like to know why the content was deleted when it was published in a highly reputed journal like 'science'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anoopc23 ( talk • contribs) 06:41, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, is there any reason which could explain why did you move Ok–Oksapmin languages to Ok–Oksapmin languages ()? Pamputt ( talk) 23:43, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Vietnamese people now are majority in Central Highlands, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Thai Nguyen [3]; the population of Kiên Giang, Dong Nai consisted of primarily ethnic Vietnamese people for a long time. This File is inaccurated and outdated. -- 123.17.229.91 ( talk) 02:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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I guess posting this isn't really necessary, since I see we now have notifications, but it's what I know. A lot has changed since I got out of my recent six-month retirement! Steel1943 ( talk) 08:14, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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Kindly do NOT change the IPA in Miodrag_Kojadinović to a wrong format any more. There is no sandhi rule with names, as first name and second name are pronounced distinctly in most languages and not as a sentence, and Serbian does not make final consonant voiceless outside of sandhi like Russian/German/Dutch etc.
Such changes as you are making are vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TruthShallSetTheeFree ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Please take a look - thanks -- Frze > talk 18:03, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
I can't thank you enough for all the pronunciations you're providing for the Classicist pronunciations of Greco-Roman names! What's your favorite reference for such things? When I can, I muddle through OED 2e, and the current Merriam-Webster online. But muddle is indeed the word, especially with non-IPA notations (slog slog slog ugh), and that's not to mention when neither have an entry for something. — Sburke ( talk) 04:48, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
I've noticed your changes to Gay Adoption Map Europe.svg. However, Austria needs to be in (there is a good link in LGBT rights in Austria, and if you wish, here is a link in German to an Austrian government site confirming that stepchild adoption for same-sex couples is now legal [5]), and Portugal needs to be out, as the relevant bill has only been adopted in first reading, the second reading being postponed again and again, lastly due to a call for a referendum (The parliamentary page I have linked to in the article [6] has the last entry on 25.10.2013 and it says that the motion to have a vote in the plenary was rejected). Sigur ( talk) 15:13, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
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Should articles such as Burmese alphabet and Pallava alphabet really stay under these titles or should they be moved to Burmese script and Pallava script as abugidas are strictly speaking not alphabets, less so even than abjads (which we apparently accept as alphabets in the broader sense, considering Arabic alphabet)? Amharic alphabet is also somewhat awkward, but at least it is only a redirect. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 01:18, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Somebody helped me with templates long ago, I think it was you, so I'm asking for your expertise again. Template:Lang-lo is not showing the Lao language. For example when I type
the result is
with no Lao letters. Any ideas as to what's wrong and/or how to fix it?-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 06:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Classifying the Oromo langauge(s) is always an interesting challenge. No label will be satisfactory to all concerned, that is clear. The Ethnologue, a published source, has used the label "macrolanguage" to describe Oromo. What publications have used the term "sociolinguistic language" to label Oromo? I think using both labels in the article allows readers to sense the complexity of the situation, and the diversity of opinion (both scholarly and popular opinion) on this subject. The article would not be saying it definitely is one category or the other, but simply reporting that both labels have been used for this situation. What do you think? Pete unseth ( talk) 22:02, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, please could you explain the rationale behind your changing the name of the sublanguage dialect group Maharashtrian Konkani in multiple articles?
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I wouldn't merge them unless this is backed by solid sources. As Masica says, Khandeshi is between Marathi and Gujarati; based on the premise for merging Marathi and Konkani, I think we can't group Khandeshi in a family that doesn't include Gujarati as well.
Does Masica list two or three types of Konkani? Is his classification available online?
I agree with you that it's best to chose an RS that is uninvolved, but I would also like a source that is accessible online, for verifiability (this was the advantage of Ethnologue). IMO, instead of taking sides, it could be a better idea to mention the different classifications in the sources and let the reader decide for himself. The Discoverer ( talk) 04:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
As for your first point, that we could just list Marathi as another Konkani language, the lit seems to do the opposite, listing Konkani as a Marathi language. Doesn't matter to me either way, but I haven't seen any source classifying Marathi as Konkani. — kwami ( talk) 06:12, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
See [7] - his link and my edit summary when I removed it - I expect we'll see more of this. Dougweller ( talk) 07:50, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
What is your explanation for undoing my edits? The information I presented is more accurate. I can source my information here "The language that was used for mutual interaction between the native population and the foreigners was variously labeled Rekhta ('mixed'), Urdu ('camp'), and Hindi, Hindavi, or Hindustani ('Indian')." Furthermore, the definition of Hindustani provided by the linguistic scholar George Grierson is and was the most popular definition of Hindustani: "Hindostani is primarily the language of the Upper Gangetic Doab, and is also the lingua franca of India, capable of being written in both Persian and Deva-Nagari characters, and without purism, avoiding alike the excessive use of either Persian or Sanskrit words when employed for literature. The name Urdu can then be confined to that special variety of Hindostani in which Persian words are of frequent occurrence. . . . and similarly, Hindi can be confined to the form of Hindostani in which Sanskrit words abound." So if there's going to a link to the Wiki article on Urdu at the very top of the page, there should also be one for Hindi. -- Foreverknowledge ( talk) 20:20, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Abecedare ( talk) 00:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. In 2008
you adding some info to ŋ on en.wiktionary.org about the ŋ first being a ligature nn ng in medieval Icelandic. Where can I find a reference on the topic? Right now
Ŋ indicates Alexander Gill or Benjamin Franklin as first uses. Thanks. --
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Hi Kwamikagami, I posted the following at Ivan Štambuk's page, but I think that you, Taivo and JorisvS could find this useful too when countering Balkan nationalists defecating on the talk pages and articles involving BCS.
--- "Hi Ivan, I was directed to a paper describing an experiment done a few years ago by an American linguist, John Bailyn, concerning Croatian and Serbian. He basically had Croats translate several Serbian texts and found that the results support the single-language hypothesis on analysis of grammar alone because of the lack of modification done to the texts. No doubt this is another blow to the nationalist braintrust on Croatian Wikipedia that continually resorts to ad hominems and non-linguistic argumentation to preserve the image of Croatian and Serbian being different languages like Dutch and German or Danish and Swedish. The study is at https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/u5/publications/JSLBCS2.pdf" ---
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Can you tell, why you revert my edit on Bengali language.i'm not understand. thanks-- Aftab1995 ( talk) 17:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, a new article was just created recently by Kanguole titled Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca). Since you are a long time contributor on the Mandarin Chinese article, you might want to take a look at it. I think the new article could easily be merged into the main Mandarin Chinese article, given the timeline and information in the new article isn't all that different and many aspects are already covered in Mandarin Chinese. Thanks.-- TheLeopard ( talk) 11:22, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
You may be interested in the following requested move: talk:Epstein–Barr virus#Requested move, which partially involves the suggestion of using a hyphen where an endash is technically appropriate (in "Epstein–Barr virus", because it was discovered by Epstein and Barr). -- JorisvS ( talk) 16:01, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that a user The Holy Four has started a request move on the talk page of Mandarin Chinese; requesting the article to be move to "Mandarin dialects". You and other users might want to check it out.-- TheLeopard ( talk) 21:38, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Can You Please contribute and build the wikipeia pages of Tamil Language and Tamil Language Generic ? Please It will be highly hlpful . Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.218.50.104 ( talk) 02:16, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just saw you were rolling out that new {{ Angle bracket}}. For me, the math-coded brackets look rather tall and disrupt the line spacing. Do you think that could be improved? I recognize using normal directly inserted unicode characters may meet with some difficulties owing to font coverage. I remember we had a discussion about them some time ago on Talk:Greek alphabet/archive 2. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:52, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
It seems the First grammatical treatise in old Icelandic was using a letter ǥ (or g̶ or g̵) to represent the sound /ŋ/. I’m not sure if there are other old Icelandic using a letter for /ŋ/, or more specifically if there is one using ŋ. -- Moyogo/ (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Kwami, with all due respect, don't be an ass. If the user says he has a problem, assume he has a problem. You can assume no clue, but there is no need to make the argument (more) personal. Cnilep ( talk) 04:19, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
With all due respect, generally at WP:DINO we try to form consensus before removing an image from articles, so the removal of Dinoguy's T.rex with only the explanation "del. image as OR. Sure, it had feathered relatives, and may have had feathered young, but large animals tend to not have thick coats unless they live in the Arctic. Any RS that T. rex had anything like this?" is jarring, considering most images deemed questionable go through [ review on this page] before being removed from articles. Dromaeosaurus is best dinosaur ( talk) 14:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit? Let's discuss it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albatalad ( talk • contribs) 19:59, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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Please see [ [8]] about a situation you may be invovled in. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 14:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Reacquaint yourself with it. You're not only the one edit warring at Help:IPA for English; you've actually violated it. In the future, go to the talk page (or check the actual OED, which gives the pronunciation I am using).
When I revert your unhelpful edit tomorrow ( WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM), do not revert them three times without having established a consensus or I'll have to take it up with the 3RR board, including today's violation. If you can find other examples in actual common English use, I'm fine with using those instead. — LlywelynII 08:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
As a side note, I still can't find any footnote there that is actually on point. I assume you had one in mind: what was it? (And, in the future, in your edit note or on the other editor's talk page, it's probably good to be more specific when a page has as many notes as that one does.) — LlywelynII 08:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I have reverted your close. The fact that the RM was started by a banned user is not a sufficient reason for a close if editors in good standing have commented (see Wikipedia:Speedy keep for a similar situation). It's doubly inappropriate for someone involved in the discussion to be doing it. Kanguole 01:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, why did you take out the maps, that are exact ? Most specialists of Romance languages say nowadays there are only 2 Gallo-Romance languages. Occitano-Romance and Gallo-Italic are transitional languages between Ibero-Romance and Italo-Romance. Concerning Dalby, he is not a specialist of the Romance languages. Better sources have to be found Nortmannus ( talk) 06:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I just saw your edit to Megalai Ehoiai. I haven't added a lot of IPA, so I probably formatted it incorrectly, but your AWB edit added a tag that read "tone was wrong", and I don't understand that since when I look at Help:IPA for Greek it appears that what was in the article previously matches the guidelines. So, what do think needs to be addressed here? Thanks a bunch for any help you can give, davidiad { t } 18:35, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Okay. Thanks for your help on this. davidiad { t } 02:44, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
You have my posting in jhangvi dialect. I have given reference. kindly look in to matter Saraiki is a language, Multani, riasti, thali, Derwali may be deleted please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sraiki ( talk • contribs) 05:03, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Kindly change the map, Existing map is wrong. Upload the map showing Saraiki.
Eurasia don't contain East Asia, Far East and so forth. That's the reason why I added them. What's your problem?!
It's not "individual"! LOL. Just look at the map of Japan. Is it in Eurasia or Far East?
Ok, sorry. The term "Eurasia" has often been associated with Eastern Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc. That's the reason why I reverted. I didn'y know that. Sorry. Kind regards.
[ [9]] but according to that map, Japan, Mongolia...not represent as Eurasian. Therefore, the distrubutions of Ural-Altaics must include the Far East, East Asia and so on.
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Please cease from reverting the edits of the Eskimo-Aleut article. The area in question is a part of the Russian Far East. Calling it Siberia is an anachronism, the modern definition of Siberia doesn't fit that area. It's like suggesting New York City is in British North America or New Amsterdam, or that Winnipeg is in Rupert's Land. 99.236.215.170 ( talk) 07:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
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Kwami, what sins have you made in this life, or maybe a previous one, to get persistently dragged in daft disputes like this one? No amount of reasoning and appeal to common sense could convince someone who is able to author an abomination such as "east Russian Far East" into absurdness of their position. Confess, my son, and you'll be forgiven; God is merciful. Your faithful groupie, No such user ( talk) 22:09, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, I see you changing the ">" symbol to "→" (referring to historical sound change) in a number of articles, and I wonder what might be the reasoning for that. I know that the symbol ">" has a different meaning in mathematics ("is greater than"). But I am also aware that ">" ("shaftless arrowhead") has been traditionally used in historical linguistics for many decades, to mean "becomes" or "is replaced by". In fact, I am aware that, for some linguists, the symbols ">" and "→" have contrasting meanings: ">" for historical sound change, and "→" for symbol replacement in a (synchronic) phrase-structure grammar. Can you cite some precedent for the use of "→" as a symbol for historical change? Respectfully, Kotabatubara ( talk) 16:52, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I will, at least for some of them. I'm finding a distinction between ⟨→⟩ for replacement vs ⟨>⟩ for phonological development. So, for example,
for the evolution of the middle voice in Greek, where the arrow in the first step indicates grammatical derivation, while the > in the second indicates sound change. So a minority of the changes were appropriate. I'll revert the rest, though it will take a while. — kwami ( talk) 08:34, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I see you've disambiguated the American "The Bridge" TV series. What is the other American 2013 TV series you referred to in your page move edit summary? Thanks. -- Wikipedical ( talk) 17:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
There's another 2013 series and another American series, but not another American 2013 series. — kwami ( talk) 20:10, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I reverted [10] because you replaced ı (U+0131 dotless i) by ɪ (U+026A small capital i). ɪ (U+026A) is really a small capital i with serif or crossbars. If you’re seeing it without crossbars, it’s a bug in the font that is displaying it, depending on what you have on your system: Arial ɪ, Helvetica ɪ, Verdana ɪ, DejaVu Sans ɪ, Liberation Sans ɪ, Noto Sans ɪ. Although quite frankly, I’m not sure ı (U+0131 dotless i) is the best either, i’d rather use ǀ ǁ ǀ́ ǃ or something like that. - Moyogo/ (talk) 01:01, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
There are plenty of other parallels in the IPA. The ɤ used to be a turned, small-cap A. Should it therefore be formally equated with a small ∀? Similarly, ʊ and ɛ could be claimed to be equivalent to ᴜ and ᴇ – they are, after all, graphic variants, and it wouldn't be a problem to sub one for the other if you didn't have IPA font support. But I don't think we'd want to say they are the same letters, nor that ɣ is the same letter as γ, even though it's nothing more than an assimilation of γ into the Latin script. — kwami ( talk) 04:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting to ǀ ǁ ǂ. Please find a source the says ! is not Lepsius’ bar with dot below and I won’t include it in the articles. -- Moyogo/ (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
I found them today by running AWB. You are welcome to fix them. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please look at the Madai and its talk page. There is a problem with an user. And also look at my talk page too please. Iranzamin-Iranzamin ( talk) 01:39, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Do you know where some of the TSA interpretations came from? (e.g. fire demon move, chariot soldier move, lion hawk move, jumping generals rules) Because I can't find any way to interpret the relevant passages in the Shogi zushiki so that their moves make any sense (left some comments on Talk:Tenjiku shogi). What do the other Edo-period sources say? Double sharp ( talk) 06:13, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
http://www.kesfetmekicinbak.com/atlaslar/y_dergi/dergi.aspx?sayiid=306
I want to add some images to Türks (kök) from Atlas magazine. Its a new founding and I think it may be helpful but I don't know how to do it. Jezebel1349 ( talk) 13:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I've learned how to do it a bit. I have added an image to Türks (kök). There were 2 images there and both of them were the same. Jezebel1349 ( talk) 14:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I discussed the correct form of the tribe's name with the creators of this article who are all native Otjiherero speakers. They told me it is Ovambanderu, not just Mbanderu. Whenever referring to the tribe as such, it must be in the plural (Ova) form. Shortening it to Mbanderu is only possible in the singular form, so Omumbanderu might be shortened to Mbanderu. The title is now not even grammatically correct, as one person cannot form a people. How is Ovambanderu people redundant? -- Pgallert ( talk) 13:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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download link. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 11:51, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami
I see that u contribute to French grammar article. well, in language bar there r Arabic and egyptian languages who r not linked to the proper link in arabic wikipedia bcs there is no article called french grammar in arabic there. I tried to remove them but they r removed from wikimedia but the strange thing is that they r still there in the article. can u fix that and remove them?????? thx Wafaashohdy ( talk) 06:57, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Either [23] or [24] is questionable. Doing the one is inconsistent with doing the other: If the relationship of Itelmen with CK is not questionable, then saying "related to Itelmen" 1-on-1 means "related to the rest of CK". -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
I saw your edit in which you changed "script styles" to "Calligraphic hands" in the article on Nastaʿlīq script. I don't agree with your edit, but rather than simply reverting it, I thought I'd discuss it with you. "Calligraphic hands" links to "Calligraphy", and the first sentence of that article makes it clear that it was a decorative art "related to writing". That is not the same as a distinct style of script, or writing, that was, and still is, used by millions of Persians. It is my understanding that, although Nastaʿlīq can be used for decorative purposes, it is really a handwriting style and is what distinguishes the handwriting of Persians from the handwriting of, say, Arabs and Pakistanis. I think "script styles" is more correct. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:05, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the jocular phonetic alphabet! A coworker and I often use exotic words when using phonetic letters. Now I'll have some more interesting ones to throw at him! Dismas| (talk) 04:08, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I've been thinking about making all the 8-dot patterns and thought of an idea that I wanted to run by you. What do you think about having, for example, braille patterns 137, 138, and 1378 as a trailing section of braille pattern dots-13? This would put the Luxembourgish and Gardner-Salinas capitals, as well as the GS greeks on the same page as the regular 6-dot alphabetic characters. If you have any concerns that I haven't thought of, please let me know. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 05:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
In Tartessian you changed the HTML superscript used to transcribe Tartessian inscriptions, which has no proble, by a Unicode font which makes the text unreadable, as it makes the superscript characters display as empty boxes "[]". Plase notice this has *nothing* to do with special charcaters used in IE reconstructions such as underdotted consonants and so on. Talskubilos ( talk) 10:57, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi kwami! I have a few questions I was hoping you could answer. I've often seen in articles that transliteration, phonetic transcription and phonemic transcription are mixed in examples for words. Is there some standard to follow? In Comrie and Corbett they always list native script and transliteration side-by-side, e.g. Ukrainian бéрег/béreh. However, often phonetic transcription is necessary to illustrate some points when there is lots of allophony (such as in Ukrainian), or when there is lots of difference between transliteration and actual pronunciation (such as with vowels in Russian). I think that the pair original script/transliteration should always be present, because those examples where only phonetic transcription is given make it unclear what word we're dealing with. Also with meanings - sometimes they are put in quotation marks, and sometimes as tooltips. It would be great if all this mess would be templated somehow, parametrized with language code, e.g. {{example|uk|бéрег|béreh|[bˈɛreɦ]|shore}} , with appropriate templates ({{ IPA}}, {{ Script}}) auto-selected for provided arguments, and customizable layout. Combination of {{ Lang}} and {{ transl}} could be used for the first two parameters, but prounciation and gloss are still missing and a unified treatment would surely be preferable.. -- Ivan Štambuk ( talk) 21:24, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
A couple comments: I think the transcription should be the default, not the IPA. That is, an unspecified parameter would be tr, and for IPA you'd need ipa=. Also, the bracket of the IPA could be automated, and it should be formatted as {{ IPA}} for better browser support. As for links, that could get quite distracting in an article with much Ukrainian in it. I'd do it manually: trlink=, ipalink=, wikt=, etc., so that the editor can decide whether and when to have links. — kwami ( talk) 01:13, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a reliable source for the phrase "primary language family" (as used, for example, in Template:Language families and Kartvelian languages)? When I saw the word "primary" used to describe the Kartvelian language family, I was skeptical because I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that it meant Kartvelian was one of the largest or historically most important language families — neither of which would be a correct thing to say. But as I investigated further (looking at the heading in the template and its revision history), it became evident that this phrase may be more widely used (and not simply hyperbole from fans of Georgian), and that it evidently refers to a language family not known to be descended from any other. If there is in fact a good source backing up the use of this term, I think it would be desirable to cite it in the Kartvelian languages article. (The Andrew Dalby book cited in that article — currently footnote #4 — appears to have been cited in error, BTW; I looked up the book in Google Books, and it doesn't appear to discuss Georgian or Kartvelian at all, either on page 38 or anywhere else.) — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:28, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Kwami. I think here in this template Kartvelian languages family should be seperate from so called "Ibero-Caucasian" as those languages are not related at all with the Northern Caucasian languages and it makes no sense at all being united with those in the template. I suggest making the Kartvelian and Northern Caucasian languages seperate in this template. What do you think? Jaqeli ( talk) 13:17, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Excuse me,
I put "any type of" instead of "a" in the Serbo-Croatian article for one very good reason: the state was *officially* called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes before the name Yugoslav was conceived. The first official incarnation of the name "Yugoslav," as in the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia," came thereafter. This is the rationale behind "any type of" versus "a" as it is actually indisputably more accurate.
Not every edit is a nationalistically-fueled manifestation of discontent. -- OettingerCroat ( talk) 20:12, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Why you have deleted the link to my site where sighted people can learning braille. Tell me an another site for the same way. On my site you can learn and practise, writing with the slate simulator and braillewriter simulator direclty online and for free. Fakoo ( talk) 10:12, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Corrected. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.110.241.234 ( talk) 08:55, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm making one of those huge tables at User:Double sharp/Maka dai dai shogi: any suggestions about the layout? (My idea was to go approximately by their initial position in the starting setup, splitting them into the groups "promotes to something that isn't a gold general" and "promotes to gold general".)
(P.S. Your new phonetic alphabet is hilarious. Sadly my brain isn't too willing to give me new suggestions right now.) Double sharp ( talk) 07:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
wait, does ja.wp really state that the furious fiend in maka-dai-dai is lion + lion dog? because that's not the same as the furious fiend from dai dai and if I'm not mistaken every other piece that's from both games moves the same way in each. Double sharp ( talk) 13:11, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Should I change the references to notes within the table, like in dai dai shogi? I'm thinking yes. Double sharp ( talk) 09:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
At the risk of causing my question above (how should I do a diagram for the emperor move in maka-dai-dai and tai?) to not be noticed, I'm slightly disappointed by "yttrium" – I dunno if it's just me, but I find its conventional pronunciation to be much more transparent from the spelling than most of the other ones. Maybe it's because "y" is acting as a vowel here in an uncommon position for English, but then it cannot be anything other than a vowel here with English phonotactics...
(P.S. for P, did you think of Przybylski?) Double sharp ( talk) 08:16, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps Whakatane for W? Double sharp ( talk) 12:27, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, the <fl> in Fluellen has the same origin as the <fl> in Floyd. But I think there's a very blurry line in Henry V between trying to represent the English pronunciation of Llywelyn and attempting to represent [ɬəˈwɛlɪn] using English orthography. But yeah, most people say [fləˈwɜlən], so it's not quite right for your purposes. I'm not sure what would be though. garik ( talk) 22:23, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Why do you neglect the fact, reference, source and act on your agenda? Discuss at the talk page of Tamil-Brahmi. I have made question and you didn’t answer yet. But, you often revert the edit of other users, and claim as edit war. Come to the talk page and give your reason. Don’t do the same edit war again and again. We create ‘encyclopedia’, not our encyclopedia. -- Anton ·٠•●♥Talk♥●•٠· 17:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
See the Tamil-Brahmi and I'd like to discuss there. -- Anton ·٠•●♥Talk♥●•٠· 18:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to interrumpt your awesome Stakhanovian pace of work... can you give me a synonymous expression for "Barenaked Ladies version"? something in more plain English? -- Davius ( talk) 02:18, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Kwami,
Exactly. We, therefore, should use the correct symbols that are actually used in the articles (the low falling tone diacritic is being used in Lao related article). Given that the purpose of the help page is to explain IPA symbols, correct IPA symbols must be used. I will undo your latest undo on the help page.
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Best,
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Regarding this edit, the source in question actively states as it's first line that this is the universal standard for branches of the US Military. Additionally you can find references to the alphabet standard through training documents on the US Marine site and the US Navy History and Heritage Command site's historical archive discusses the historical alphabets and how new ones are implemented along with why they were standardized to what they are now. -- Karek words?! 12:35, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
At Talk:Traditional African religion, you had a good one "spinning our wheels", laughed really, made a lot of sense for such situation as well :). Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:54, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Why did you add back a load of images that have not existed since June 2008 (5.5 + years)? KylieTastic ( talk) 19:27, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Your new friend's edits to Arabic alphabet may interest you — especially since he put Thaana in the list of child systems.
Espreon ( talk) 22:37, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, could you please explain your reasoning for the removal of the pronunciation of Bryndwr syllables from the main text to a reference? 103.29.31.26 ( talk) 20:39, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I see you have reverted the commits I had made to the above page. Could you provide a reason as to why? The words are incorrectly provided there. The character 'त' is not pronounced as the 't' in stable? In fact, the 't' in stable is pronounced as the character 'ट'
Reference: Hindi is my mother tongue and I have also studied it for fourteen years. Also, any of a billion people in India can justify what I said. In addition, my name has 'त' in it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guptasanket ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
In the article of West Trans–New Guinea languages, it is suggested that the languages of East Timor (and Kisar Island) are only a geographical group, following Malcolm Ross (2005). But a recent paper of Mandala et al (2011) has appeared showing a phylogenetic relationship among these languages. I have added a red-link for Fataluku-Makasai languages, and I have removed the label "isolate" for the three branches of Ross. I have created in addition es:Lenguas fataluku-makasae that can be used for a new article in English Wikipedia. The reference for the work of Mandala is:
You can check it. I have tried to create the new article, but I do not know the reasons I can not to create it, for this reason I am contacting you, -- Davius ( talk) 00:29, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Word of the indefinite time-span
S.Twa also indigenous, like Kwisi etc. (Inskepe). Kwisi may have once had cattle?
upload new rongorongo R photos.
> Could you add a date and ref for the speaker numbers at Tangam and Milang? + Wish I could. Any numbers I give are from my own field notes.
> Also, feel free to quote your own publications on the importance of the language, but such subjective commentary should not be in Wikipedia's voice. + Point taken!
> Also, are the Padam a tribe, or a tribal people? + Depends on definitions. Padam are basically a cluster of clan groups that speak a particular way, primarily as defined by the speech of Damroh, the primary "Padam" virkwpollage. Linguistically, Padam can be considered a dialect of Adi, or a particular range within the Eastern Tani dialect chain.
Q: Is there a reason for the "()" after "Tangam language"? User:markwpost ( talk)
Don't edit war and reinstate your alteration. Please follow WP:BRD and discuss it at Talk:Anime. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 05:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Moved discussion to article talk page. Middayexpress ( talk) 15:10, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwamikagami,
I have seen that you have been policing/editing articles about the Dardic languages. I have been adding citations and information over the last couple days to the languages in that category. Time and again, I have run into vandalism/self-promotion by this guy under various accounts in most of the non-stub Dardic language pages. As a frequent contributor, is there any way you can help out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.165.84 ( talk) 23:07, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I notice that you're still using IPA-en to answer Pronunciation-needed requests. If you've created an automated process to do this, can we include a IPAc-en conversion? -- deflective ( talk) 17:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you did some edits to {{ IPAc-pl}} in the past. Could you help with adding mouseover tooltips to that template? I prepared a basic list to mirror the functionality of {{ H:IPA}}, all is explained at Template_talk:IPAc-pl#Mouseover. Any help would be appreciated. // Halibu tt 23:47, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamigami. I'm glad you are updating language articles to use Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013). The "infobox language" template with generate this with "ref = e17". But it generates a named reference that is usually used in other parts of a language article too. So look for <ref name=e16 /> and change them to e17. Otherwise we get the bright red "Cite error: The named reference e16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page)" messages. I'm fixing these as they turn up on the broken reference list. Thanks StarryGrandma ( talk) 19:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
We could semi-automate the conversions w AWB. The problem w doing it in the box, besides the fact that it says e17 in the box and not e16, is that there are about 40 legitimate links to e16 (and a smaller number to e15) from the box. There are also some intentional refs to e16 from the text, but those aren't generating errors. So, in articles that are generating errors, we could change the first cross-ref to a simple {{ e16}} ref. — kwami ( talk) 14:24, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello if you change e16 to e17 reference at Ethnologue please take a look at references section: Cite error: The named reference e16 was invoked but never defined. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tec%C3%B3atl_Mazatec&diff=next&oldid=544338196 Thanks -- Frze > talk 07:18, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
The usage "Náhuatl" is only a Spanish convention. The accent is not necessary in English and is not used in English publications about the language. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 15:42, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
hi Kwami, You seem to have gone on a personal crusade against Ethnologue. I see no good reason for that. Your term of "content fork" is just an excuse: why should these links be harder to maintain than all the thousands of extra links added every day on WP? I don't see your point. Ethnolinks were created for a reason. Note that I have nothing with SIL, actually I don't like the Ethnologue particularly, it's just a reference among others, where some people can find some info. Please refrain from removing massive amounts of data from pages without asking first on Talk pages; you know better. Womtelo ( talk) 19:13, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hello! i admire your so many contributions to Wikipedia. And i am awed that you were born on Saturday, because in Greece we have a tradition that people born on Saturday have a superior power, and if they curse, their curse is effective. My father was born on Saturday, too.
I m interested to know if you r African, and what your blood group is. (If you ask about me, i have a rare type, A rhesus negative). As to my article "Free Greek Language", i wrote it with capital L in the sense that all 3 words "Free Greek Language" are the name of that auxiliary language. If you permit me, i will make it capital again. I find many things interesting in your writings, if i have the time for it i wish to keep communicating with you. thank you. 888gowinda ( talk) 20:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Hello. I just want to make a comment on this edit. 'Item' can be syllabified either as 'i·tem' or as 'it·em.' This is why I suggested the word 'iodine' instead; it is always syllabified as i·o·dine. However, you were correct in reverting my other edit. -- Omnipaedista ( talk) 12:02, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Could you have a look at a comment of mine on the talk page there? It doesn't seem to get visited very often. Peridon ( talk) 14:46, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to query your edit [1] to Guatemalan Sign Language which removed the citation to Ethnologue as a source. If the contention is that it is not an RS for language articles please direct me to the discussion that so determined. If not it should certainly be included since I did, in fact, use it as a source when I first wrote the article. Eluchil404 ( talk) 03:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
No problem. It was actually such a challenge most especially the higher language nodes since I have to fix the range relative to other nearby groups and preexisting maps. Took me more than 2 hours for most of them, but for the sake of information! -- Pansitkanton ( talk) 14:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Why have you taken it upon yourself to reclassify Emilian and Romagnol as dialects of one unified language? There is a clear distinction, obvious to speakers of either. mg SH 09:49, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Emilian dialect -- Frze > talk 11:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Regarding my revert to the 50000 Quaoar article, [2] I initially looked at it because User:Memy9909 had been vandalising other articles, and I seem to have got confused between KBOs in general and classical Kuiper belt objects in particular - our article on the latter says that Pluto isn't one. Thanks for correcting my error. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Why are you removing the native languages map from the languages in India page? Jujhar.pannu ( talk) 21:55, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Some users have been working hard on Category:Pages with broken reference names.
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "FOOTNOTEZimmermann_2012" is not used in the content Can you take a look and work out what you were trying to do? Thanks -- Frze ( talk · contribs) 08:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwami, would you mind commenting at Talk:Motor Gun Boat? Many thanks. Shem ( talk) 19:44, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect IPA for English. Since you had some involvement with the IPA for English redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Cathfolant ( talk) 21:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
I have been engaged in a dispute at Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias for some time now that could be of relevance to the many pronunciations of non-English names throughout WP. It's a former featured article, and one of the contributors who got it to FA status objects to the pronunciation of the name Caxias being indicated, for a rotating set of reasons. Any input there would be appreciated, as we don't seem to be resolving it ourselves and hardly anyone else is watching the page. — ˈzɪzɨvə ( talk) 00:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Kwami,
You told me I need to fix links before retargeting IPA for English. But what links? I look at what links to IPA for English, and I see zero articles, and the only Wikipedia pages are archives (which you wouldn't normally retarget) and the Redirect for Discussion pages, which you obviously wouldn't retarget. What needs to be retargeted first? Ego White Tray ( talk) 06:17, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
I have noticed that you have undid the edit that i have done in the page ' Indus scrip'. I would like to know why the content was deleted when it was published in a highly reputed journal like 'science'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anoopc23 ( talk • contribs) 06:41, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, is there any reason which could explain why did you move Ok–Oksapmin languages to Ok–Oksapmin languages ()? Pamputt ( talk) 23:43, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Vietnamese people now are majority in Central Highlands, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Thai Nguyen [3]; the population of Kiên Giang, Dong Nai consisted of primarily ethnic Vietnamese people for a long time. This File is inaccurated and outdated. -- 123.17.229.91 ( talk) 02:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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I guess posting this isn't really necessary, since I see we now have notifications, but it's what I know. A lot has changed since I got out of my recent six-month retirement! Steel1943 ( talk) 08:14, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
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Kindly do NOT change the IPA in Miodrag_Kojadinović to a wrong format any more. There is no sandhi rule with names, as first name and second name are pronounced distinctly in most languages and not as a sentence, and Serbian does not make final consonant voiceless outside of sandhi like Russian/German/Dutch etc.
Such changes as you are making are vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TruthShallSetTheeFree ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Please take a look - thanks -- Frze > talk 18:03, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
I can't thank you enough for all the pronunciations you're providing for the Classicist pronunciations of Greco-Roman names! What's your favorite reference for such things? When I can, I muddle through OED 2e, and the current Merriam-Webster online. But muddle is indeed the word, especially with non-IPA notations (slog slog slog ugh), and that's not to mention when neither have an entry for something. — Sburke ( talk) 04:48, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
I've noticed your changes to Gay Adoption Map Europe.svg. However, Austria needs to be in (there is a good link in LGBT rights in Austria, and if you wish, here is a link in German to an Austrian government site confirming that stepchild adoption for same-sex couples is now legal [5]), and Portugal needs to be out, as the relevant bill has only been adopted in first reading, the second reading being postponed again and again, lastly due to a call for a referendum (The parliamentary page I have linked to in the article [6] has the last entry on 25.10.2013 and it says that the motion to have a vote in the plenary was rejected). Sigur ( talk) 15:13, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
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Should articles such as Burmese alphabet and Pallava alphabet really stay under these titles or should they be moved to Burmese script and Pallava script as abugidas are strictly speaking not alphabets, less so even than abjads (which we apparently accept as alphabets in the broader sense, considering Arabic alphabet)? Amharic alphabet is also somewhat awkward, but at least it is only a redirect. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 01:18, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Somebody helped me with templates long ago, I think it was you, so I'm asking for your expertise again. Template:Lang-lo is not showing the Lao language. For example when I type
the result is
with no Lao letters. Any ideas as to what's wrong and/or how to fix it?-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 06:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Classifying the Oromo langauge(s) is always an interesting challenge. No label will be satisfactory to all concerned, that is clear. The Ethnologue, a published source, has used the label "macrolanguage" to describe Oromo. What publications have used the term "sociolinguistic language" to label Oromo? I think using both labels in the article allows readers to sense the complexity of the situation, and the diversity of opinion (both scholarly and popular opinion) on this subject. The article would not be saying it definitely is one category or the other, but simply reporting that both labels have been used for this situation. What do you think? Pete unseth ( talk) 22:02, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, please could you explain the rationale behind your changing the name of the sublanguage dialect group Maharashtrian Konkani in multiple articles?
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I wouldn't merge them unless this is backed by solid sources. As Masica says, Khandeshi is between Marathi and Gujarati; based on the premise for merging Marathi and Konkani, I think we can't group Khandeshi in a family that doesn't include Gujarati as well.
Does Masica list two or three types of Konkani? Is his classification available online?
I agree with you that it's best to chose an RS that is uninvolved, but I would also like a source that is accessible online, for verifiability (this was the advantage of Ethnologue). IMO, instead of taking sides, it could be a better idea to mention the different classifications in the sources and let the reader decide for himself. The Discoverer ( talk) 04:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
As for your first point, that we could just list Marathi as another Konkani language, the lit seems to do the opposite, listing Konkani as a Marathi language. Doesn't matter to me either way, but I haven't seen any source classifying Marathi as Konkani. — kwami ( talk) 06:12, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
See [7] - his link and my edit summary when I removed it - I expect we'll see more of this. Dougweller ( talk) 07:50, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
What is your explanation for undoing my edits? The information I presented is more accurate. I can source my information here "The language that was used for mutual interaction between the native population and the foreigners was variously labeled Rekhta ('mixed'), Urdu ('camp'), and Hindi, Hindavi, or Hindustani ('Indian')." Furthermore, the definition of Hindustani provided by the linguistic scholar George Grierson is and was the most popular definition of Hindustani: "Hindostani is primarily the language of the Upper Gangetic Doab, and is also the lingua franca of India, capable of being written in both Persian and Deva-Nagari characters, and without purism, avoiding alike the excessive use of either Persian or Sanskrit words when employed for literature. The name Urdu can then be confined to that special variety of Hindostani in which Persian words are of frequent occurrence. . . . and similarly, Hindi can be confined to the form of Hindostani in which Sanskrit words abound." So if there's going to a link to the Wiki article on Urdu at the very top of the page, there should also be one for Hindi. -- Foreverknowledge ( talk) 20:20, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Abecedare ( talk) 00:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. In 2008
you adding some info to ŋ on en.wiktionary.org about the ŋ first being a ligature nn ng in medieval Icelandic. Where can I find a reference on the topic? Right now
Ŋ indicates Alexander Gill or Benjamin Franklin as first uses. Thanks. --
Moyogo/
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Hi Kwamikagami, I posted the following at Ivan Štambuk's page, but I think that you, Taivo and JorisvS could find this useful too when countering Balkan nationalists defecating on the talk pages and articles involving BCS.
--- "Hi Ivan, I was directed to a paper describing an experiment done a few years ago by an American linguist, John Bailyn, concerning Croatian and Serbian. He basically had Croats translate several Serbian texts and found that the results support the single-language hypothesis on analysis of grammar alone because of the lack of modification done to the texts. No doubt this is another blow to the nationalist braintrust on Croatian Wikipedia that continually resorts to ad hominems and non-linguistic argumentation to preserve the image of Croatian and Serbian being different languages like Dutch and German or Danish and Swedish. The study is at https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/u5/publications/JSLBCS2.pdf" ---
LAuburger ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:29, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Can you tell, why you revert my edit on Bengali language.i'm not understand. thanks-- Aftab1995 ( talk) 17:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, a new article was just created recently by Kanguole titled Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca). Since you are a long time contributor on the Mandarin Chinese article, you might want to take a look at it. I think the new article could easily be merged into the main Mandarin Chinese article, given the timeline and information in the new article isn't all that different and many aspects are already covered in Mandarin Chinese. Thanks.-- TheLeopard ( talk) 11:22, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
You may be interested in the following requested move: talk:Epstein–Barr virus#Requested move, which partially involves the suggestion of using a hyphen where an endash is technically appropriate (in "Epstein–Barr virus", because it was discovered by Epstein and Barr). -- JorisvS ( talk) 16:01, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that a user The Holy Four has started a request move on the talk page of Mandarin Chinese; requesting the article to be move to "Mandarin dialects". You and other users might want to check it out.-- TheLeopard ( talk) 21:38, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Can You Please contribute and build the wikipeia pages of Tamil Language and Tamil Language Generic ? Please It will be highly hlpful . Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.218.50.104 ( talk) 02:16, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I just saw you were rolling out that new {{ Angle bracket}}. For me, the math-coded brackets look rather tall and disrupt the line spacing. Do you think that could be improved? I recognize using normal directly inserted unicode characters may meet with some difficulties owing to font coverage. I remember we had a discussion about them some time ago on Talk:Greek alphabet/archive 2. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:52, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
It seems the First grammatical treatise in old Icelandic was using a letter ǥ (or g̶ or g̵) to represent the sound /ŋ/. I’m not sure if there are other old Icelandic using a letter for /ŋ/, or more specifically if there is one using ŋ. -- Moyogo/ (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Kwami, with all due respect, don't be an ass. If the user says he has a problem, assume he has a problem. You can assume no clue, but there is no need to make the argument (more) personal. Cnilep ( talk) 04:19, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
With all due respect, generally at WP:DINO we try to form consensus before removing an image from articles, so the removal of Dinoguy's T.rex with only the explanation "del. image as OR. Sure, it had feathered relatives, and may have had feathered young, but large animals tend to not have thick coats unless they live in the Arctic. Any RS that T. rex had anything like this?" is jarring, considering most images deemed questionable go through [ review on this page] before being removed from articles. Dromaeosaurus is best dinosaur ( talk) 14:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit? Let's discuss it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albatalad ( talk • contribs) 19:59, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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Please see [ [8]] about a situation you may be invovled in. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 14:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Reacquaint yourself with it. You're not only the one edit warring at Help:IPA for English; you've actually violated it. In the future, go to the talk page (or check the actual OED, which gives the pronunciation I am using).
When I revert your unhelpful edit tomorrow ( WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM), do not revert them three times without having established a consensus or I'll have to take it up with the 3RR board, including today's violation. If you can find other examples in actual common English use, I'm fine with using those instead. — LlywelynII 08:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
As a side note, I still can't find any footnote there that is actually on point. I assume you had one in mind: what was it? (And, in the future, in your edit note or on the other editor's talk page, it's probably good to be more specific when a page has as many notes as that one does.) — LlywelynII 08:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I have reverted your close. The fact that the RM was started by a banned user is not a sufficient reason for a close if editors in good standing have commented (see Wikipedia:Speedy keep for a similar situation). It's doubly inappropriate for someone involved in the discussion to be doing it. Kanguole 01:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, why did you take out the maps, that are exact ? Most specialists of Romance languages say nowadays there are only 2 Gallo-Romance languages. Occitano-Romance and Gallo-Italic are transitional languages between Ibero-Romance and Italo-Romance. Concerning Dalby, he is not a specialist of the Romance languages. Better sources have to be found Nortmannus ( talk) 06:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I just saw your edit to Megalai Ehoiai. I haven't added a lot of IPA, so I probably formatted it incorrectly, but your AWB edit added a tag that read "tone was wrong", and I don't understand that since when I look at Help:IPA for Greek it appears that what was in the article previously matches the guidelines. So, what do think needs to be addressed here? Thanks a bunch for any help you can give, davidiad { t } 18:35, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Okay. Thanks for your help on this. davidiad { t } 02:44, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
You have my posting in jhangvi dialect. I have given reference. kindly look in to matter Saraiki is a language, Multani, riasti, thali, Derwali may be deleted please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sraiki ( talk • contribs) 05:03, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Kindly change the map, Existing map is wrong. Upload the map showing Saraiki.
Eurasia don't contain East Asia, Far East and so forth. That's the reason why I added them. What's your problem?!
It's not "individual"! LOL. Just look at the map of Japan. Is it in Eurasia or Far East?
Ok, sorry. The term "Eurasia" has often been associated with Eastern Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc. That's the reason why I reverted. I didn'y know that. Sorry. Kind regards.
[ [9]] but according to that map, Japan, Mongolia...not represent as Eurasian. Therefore, the distrubutions of Ural-Altaics must include the Far East, East Asia and so on.
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Please cease from reverting the edits of the Eskimo-Aleut article. The area in question is a part of the Russian Far East. Calling it Siberia is an anachronism, the modern definition of Siberia doesn't fit that area. It's like suggesting New York City is in British North America or New Amsterdam, or that Winnipeg is in Rupert's Land. 99.236.215.170 ( talk) 07:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
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Kwami, what sins have you made in this life, or maybe a previous one, to get persistently dragged in daft disputes like this one? No amount of reasoning and appeal to common sense could convince someone who is able to author an abomination such as "east Russian Far East" into absurdness of their position. Confess, my son, and you'll be forgiven; God is merciful. Your faithful groupie, No such user ( talk) 22:09, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, I see you changing the ">" symbol to "→" (referring to historical sound change) in a number of articles, and I wonder what might be the reasoning for that. I know that the symbol ">" has a different meaning in mathematics ("is greater than"). But I am also aware that ">" ("shaftless arrowhead") has been traditionally used in historical linguistics for many decades, to mean "becomes" or "is replaced by". In fact, I am aware that, for some linguists, the symbols ">" and "→" have contrasting meanings: ">" for historical sound change, and "→" for symbol replacement in a (synchronic) phrase-structure grammar. Can you cite some precedent for the use of "→" as a symbol for historical change? Respectfully, Kotabatubara ( talk) 16:52, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I will, at least for some of them. I'm finding a distinction between ⟨→⟩ for replacement vs ⟨>⟩ for phonological development. So, for example,
for the evolution of the middle voice in Greek, where the arrow in the first step indicates grammatical derivation, while the > in the second indicates sound change. So a minority of the changes were appropriate. I'll revert the rest, though it will take a while. — kwami ( talk) 08:34, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I see you've disambiguated the American "The Bridge" TV series. What is the other American 2013 TV series you referred to in your page move edit summary? Thanks. -- Wikipedical ( talk) 17:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
There's another 2013 series and another American series, but not another American 2013 series. — kwami ( talk) 20:10, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I reverted [10] because you replaced ı (U+0131 dotless i) by ɪ (U+026A small capital i). ɪ (U+026A) is really a small capital i with serif or crossbars. If you’re seeing it without crossbars, it’s a bug in the font that is displaying it, depending on what you have on your system: Arial ɪ, Helvetica ɪ, Verdana ɪ, DejaVu Sans ɪ, Liberation Sans ɪ, Noto Sans ɪ. Although quite frankly, I’m not sure ı (U+0131 dotless i) is the best either, i’d rather use ǀ ǁ ǀ́ ǃ or something like that. - Moyogo/ (talk) 01:01, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
There are plenty of other parallels in the IPA. The ɤ used to be a turned, small-cap A. Should it therefore be formally equated with a small ∀? Similarly, ʊ and ɛ could be claimed to be equivalent to ᴜ and ᴇ – they are, after all, graphic variants, and it wouldn't be a problem to sub one for the other if you didn't have IPA font support. But I don't think we'd want to say they are the same letters, nor that ɣ is the same letter as γ, even though it's nothing more than an assimilation of γ into the Latin script. — kwami ( talk) 04:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting to ǀ ǁ ǂ. Please find a source the says ! is not Lepsius’ bar with dot below and I won’t include it in the articles. -- Moyogo/ (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
I found them today by running AWB. You are welcome to fix them. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please look at the Madai and its talk page. There is a problem with an user. And also look at my talk page too please. Iranzamin-Iranzamin ( talk) 01:39, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Do you know where some of the TSA interpretations came from? (e.g. fire demon move, chariot soldier move, lion hawk move, jumping generals rules) Because I can't find any way to interpret the relevant passages in the Shogi zushiki so that their moves make any sense (left some comments on Talk:Tenjiku shogi). What do the other Edo-period sources say? Double sharp ( talk) 06:13, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
http://www.kesfetmekicinbak.com/atlaslar/y_dergi/dergi.aspx?sayiid=306
I want to add some images to Türks (kök) from Atlas magazine. Its a new founding and I think it may be helpful but I don't know how to do it. Jezebel1349 ( talk) 13:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I've learned how to do it a bit. I have added an image to Türks (kök). There were 2 images there and both of them were the same. Jezebel1349 ( talk) 14:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I discussed the correct form of the tribe's name with the creators of this article who are all native Otjiherero speakers. They told me it is Ovambanderu, not just Mbanderu. Whenever referring to the tribe as such, it must be in the plural (Ova) form. Shortening it to Mbanderu is only possible in the singular form, so Omumbanderu might be shortened to Mbanderu. The title is now not even grammatically correct, as one person cannot form a people. How is Ovambanderu people redundant? -- Pgallert ( talk) 13:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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download link. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 11:51, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami
I see that u contribute to French grammar article. well, in language bar there r Arabic and egyptian languages who r not linked to the proper link in arabic wikipedia bcs there is no article called french grammar in arabic there. I tried to remove them but they r removed from wikimedia but the strange thing is that they r still there in the article. can u fix that and remove them?????? thx Wafaashohdy ( talk) 06:57, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Either [23] or [24] is questionable. Doing the one is inconsistent with doing the other: If the relationship of Itelmen with CK is not questionable, then saying "related to Itelmen" 1-on-1 means "related to the rest of CK". -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
I saw your edit in which you changed "script styles" to "Calligraphic hands" in the article on Nastaʿlīq script. I don't agree with your edit, but rather than simply reverting it, I thought I'd discuss it with you. "Calligraphic hands" links to "Calligraphy", and the first sentence of that article makes it clear that it was a decorative art "related to writing". That is not the same as a distinct style of script, or writing, that was, and still is, used by millions of Persians. It is my understanding that, although Nastaʿlīq can be used for decorative purposes, it is really a handwriting style and is what distinguishes the handwriting of Persians from the handwriting of, say, Arabs and Pakistanis. I think "script styles" is more correct. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:05, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the jocular phonetic alphabet! A coworker and I often use exotic words when using phonetic letters. Now I'll have some more interesting ones to throw at him! Dismas| (talk) 04:08, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I've been thinking about making all the 8-dot patterns and thought of an idea that I wanted to run by you. What do you think about having, for example, braille patterns 137, 138, and 1378 as a trailing section of braille pattern dots-13? This would put the Luxembourgish and Gardner-Salinas capitals, as well as the GS greeks on the same page as the regular 6-dot alphabetic characters. If you have any concerns that I haven't thought of, please let me know. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 05:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
In Tartessian you changed the HTML superscript used to transcribe Tartessian inscriptions, which has no proble, by a Unicode font which makes the text unreadable, as it makes the superscript characters display as empty boxes "[]". Plase notice this has *nothing* to do with special charcaters used in IE reconstructions such as underdotted consonants and so on. Talskubilos ( talk) 10:57, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi kwami! I have a few questions I was hoping you could answer. I've often seen in articles that transliteration, phonetic transcription and phonemic transcription are mixed in examples for words. Is there some standard to follow? In Comrie and Corbett they always list native script and transliteration side-by-side, e.g. Ukrainian бéрег/béreh. However, often phonetic transcription is necessary to illustrate some points when there is lots of allophony (such as in Ukrainian), or when there is lots of difference between transliteration and actual pronunciation (such as with vowels in Russian). I think that the pair original script/transliteration should always be present, because those examples where only phonetic transcription is given make it unclear what word we're dealing with. Also with meanings - sometimes they are put in quotation marks, and sometimes as tooltips. It would be great if all this mess would be templated somehow, parametrized with language code, e.g. {{example|uk|бéрег|béreh|[bˈɛreɦ]|shore}} , with appropriate templates ({{ IPA}}, {{ Script}}) auto-selected for provided arguments, and customizable layout. Combination of {{ Lang}} and {{ transl}} could be used for the first two parameters, but prounciation and gloss are still missing and a unified treatment would surely be preferable.. -- Ivan Štambuk ( talk) 21:24, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
A couple comments: I think the transcription should be the default, not the IPA. That is, an unspecified parameter would be tr, and for IPA you'd need ipa=. Also, the bracket of the IPA could be automated, and it should be formatted as {{ IPA}} for better browser support. As for links, that could get quite distracting in an article with much Ukrainian in it. I'd do it manually: trlink=, ipalink=, wikt=, etc., so that the editor can decide whether and when to have links. — kwami ( talk) 01:13, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a reliable source for the phrase "primary language family" (as used, for example, in Template:Language families and Kartvelian languages)? When I saw the word "primary" used to describe the Kartvelian language family, I was skeptical because I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that it meant Kartvelian was one of the largest or historically most important language families — neither of which would be a correct thing to say. But as I investigated further (looking at the heading in the template and its revision history), it became evident that this phrase may be more widely used (and not simply hyperbole from fans of Georgian), and that it evidently refers to a language family not known to be descended from any other. If there is in fact a good source backing up the use of this term, I think it would be desirable to cite it in the Kartvelian languages article. (The Andrew Dalby book cited in that article — currently footnote #4 — appears to have been cited in error, BTW; I looked up the book in Google Books, and it doesn't appear to discuss Georgian or Kartvelian at all, either on page 38 or anywhere else.) — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:28, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Kwami. I think here in this template Kartvelian languages family should be seperate from so called "Ibero-Caucasian" as those languages are not related at all with the Northern Caucasian languages and it makes no sense at all being united with those in the template. I suggest making the Kartvelian and Northern Caucasian languages seperate in this template. What do you think? Jaqeli ( talk) 13:17, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Excuse me,
I put "any type of" instead of "a" in the Serbo-Croatian article for one very good reason: the state was *officially* called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes before the name Yugoslav was conceived. The first official incarnation of the name "Yugoslav," as in the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia," came thereafter. This is the rationale behind "any type of" versus "a" as it is actually indisputably more accurate.
Not every edit is a nationalistically-fueled manifestation of discontent. -- OettingerCroat ( talk) 20:12, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Why you have deleted the link to my site where sighted people can learning braille. Tell me an another site for the same way. On my site you can learn and practise, writing with the slate simulator and braillewriter simulator direclty online and for free. Fakoo ( talk) 10:12, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Corrected. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.110.241.234 ( talk) 08:55, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm making one of those huge tables at User:Double sharp/Maka dai dai shogi: any suggestions about the layout? (My idea was to go approximately by their initial position in the starting setup, splitting them into the groups "promotes to something that isn't a gold general" and "promotes to gold general".)
(P.S. Your new phonetic alphabet is hilarious. Sadly my brain isn't too willing to give me new suggestions right now.) Double sharp ( talk) 07:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
wait, does ja.wp really state that the furious fiend in maka-dai-dai is lion + lion dog? because that's not the same as the furious fiend from dai dai and if I'm not mistaken every other piece that's from both games moves the same way in each. Double sharp ( talk) 13:11, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Should I change the references to notes within the table, like in dai dai shogi? I'm thinking yes. Double sharp ( talk) 09:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
At the risk of causing my question above (how should I do a diagram for the emperor move in maka-dai-dai and tai?) to not be noticed, I'm slightly disappointed by "yttrium" – I dunno if it's just me, but I find its conventional pronunciation to be much more transparent from the spelling than most of the other ones. Maybe it's because "y" is acting as a vowel here in an uncommon position for English, but then it cannot be anything other than a vowel here with English phonotactics...
(P.S. for P, did you think of Przybylski?) Double sharp ( talk) 08:16, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps Whakatane for W? Double sharp ( talk) 12:27, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, the <fl> in Fluellen has the same origin as the <fl> in Floyd. But I think there's a very blurry line in Henry V between trying to represent the English pronunciation of Llywelyn and attempting to represent [ɬəˈwɛlɪn] using English orthography. But yeah, most people say [fləˈwɜlən], so it's not quite right for your purposes. I'm not sure what would be though. garik ( talk) 22:23, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Why do you neglect the fact, reference, source and act on your agenda? Discuss at the talk page of Tamil-Brahmi. I have made question and you didn’t answer yet. But, you often revert the edit of other users, and claim as edit war. Come to the talk page and give your reason. Don’t do the same edit war again and again. We create ‘encyclopedia’, not our encyclopedia. -- Anton ·٠•●♥Talk♥●•٠· 17:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
See the Tamil-Brahmi and I'd like to discuss there. -- Anton ·٠•●♥Talk♥●•٠· 18:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to interrumpt your awesome Stakhanovian pace of work... can you give me a synonymous expression for "Barenaked Ladies version"? something in more plain English? -- Davius ( talk) 02:18, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Dear Kwami,
Exactly. We, therefore, should use the correct symbols that are actually used in the articles (the low falling tone diacritic is being used in Lao related article). Given that the purpose of the help page is to explain IPA symbols, correct IPA symbols must be used. I will undo your latest undo on the help page.
Best,
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Best,
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Regarding this edit, the source in question actively states as it's first line that this is the universal standard for branches of the US Military. Additionally you can find references to the alphabet standard through training documents on the US Marine site and the US Navy History and Heritage Command site's historical archive discusses the historical alphabets and how new ones are implemented along with why they were standardized to what they are now. -- Karek words?! 12:35, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
At Talk:Traditional African religion, you had a good one "spinning our wheels", laughed really, made a lot of sense for such situation as well :). Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:54, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Why did you add back a load of images that have not existed since June 2008 (5.5 + years)? KylieTastic ( talk) 19:27, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Your new friend's edits to Arabic alphabet may interest you — especially since he put Thaana in the list of child systems.
Espreon ( talk) 22:37, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, could you please explain your reasoning for the removal of the pronunciation of Bryndwr syllables from the main text to a reference? 103.29.31.26 ( talk) 20:39, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I see you have reverted the commits I had made to the above page. Could you provide a reason as to why? The words are incorrectly provided there. The character 'त' is not pronounced as the 't' in stable? In fact, the 't' in stable is pronounced as the character 'ट'
Reference: Hindi is my mother tongue and I have also studied it for fourteen years. Also, any of a billion people in India can justify what I said. In addition, my name has 'त' in it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guptasanket ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
In the article of West Trans–New Guinea languages, it is suggested that the languages of East Timor (and Kisar Island) are only a geographical group, following Malcolm Ross (2005). But a recent paper of Mandala et al (2011) has appeared showing a phylogenetic relationship among these languages. I have added a red-link for Fataluku-Makasai languages, and I have removed the label "isolate" for the three branches of Ross. I have created in addition es:Lenguas fataluku-makasae that can be used for a new article in English Wikipedia. The reference for the work of Mandala is:
You can check it. I have tried to create the new article, but I do not know the reasons I can not to create it, for this reason I am contacting you, -- Davius ( talk) 00:29, 1 January 2014 (UTC)