How do u say ."Angel from the snow"thanks. Michaburt ( talk) 16:24, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Firstly, all the best for the new year. I see that the article !Kung language mentions South Africa in the infobox (added by you long after the other three countries) and also in the text, but not in the intro. What I actually want clarity on is whether these later additions on the !Kung in South Africa refer to indegenous South African San or whether these are the San from Angola and Namibia who were withdrawn from those countries by the South African military for fear of reprisals for collaborating with the SA army against the MPLA and SWAPO. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:05, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Dear admin, hello and thank you for your attention. But due to inserting two empty brackets, the edit has been undid by another administrator. Please have another looking to this page. Best Regards-- Shadegan ( talk) 12:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I notice that Japanese Wikipedia has added some footnotes quoting the original Edo-era documents, so I've written stuff at Talk:Dai dai shogi#some of the alternate piece moves. Hopefully my translation and interpretation are not those of a blind idiot (although that would make a reasonable name for a shogi-variant piece). It is to confirm this that I write to you! ^_^
Regarding gameplay, though, I did give this and maka-dai-dai a try. The latter is more playable, but both are ridiculous IMHO. The Chess Variant Pages has also finally added articles about the shogi variants, but even they do not cover tai shogi, and their article on taikyoku shogi is only directly quoted from that Japanese book published about it. (I assume tai stopped being impressive when taikyoku was invented. Neither is the largest chess variant anymore, given the existence of 16×16×16 chess since 1996.) Double sharp ( talk) 16:37, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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@Kwamikagami,
Hello, I understand you are from Japan and not a native of India. I want to know the reasons for which you have deleted the authentic Kannada language native speakers map added by me. No less valid reason is acceptable and can hide the facts for long. Truth alone shall always triumph no matter how hard the efforts made to hide it are! Satyameva Jayate. Love from Karnataka and India. Cheers NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 14:47, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hi kwami, I'm against your removing of my articles of Kannada language native speakers map and their total population. As far as its rank among world language speakers is concerned, its not a problem to me. I am saying this as I am neutral to the topic and only in favour of the truth, not blindly relying on some university's flawed linguistic maps rather than observing the ground truths. I am going to accept only valid reasons for removing my maps. If you are not ready to put back my maps, then the current flawed version of Kannada native speakers map on wiki must also be immediately removed as its not based on ground realities[PS: Columbia university study reference is not a proof of ground reality]. I have visited and interacted with people in all these areas. Also, the Kannada population of 50 million is based on 2015 Government census estimates and not a mere 40 million of 2001! If you are not ready to update this population, then at least year 2001 - 40 million should be mentioned along with year 2015 - 50 million speakers, which has highly valid references. I'm ready for a healthy scholarly debate based on the ground realities. I invite you to India to visit these areas, know the lingua-franca of the true native speakers of these regions considering that hundreds of thousands have migrated to the border regions of Kannada native speakers as economic/social migrants in 19th and 20th centuries and it continues unabated till date! Cheers, NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 15:17, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Uanfala, What do you mean by your comment? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NitinBhargava2016 ( talk • contribs) 17:21, 12 February 2016
Hi,
As far as the Kannada native speakers map is concerned, its based on my research of having visited the border regions of Kannada speaking areas and Karnataka and on 'ground realities'. No one is cherry-picking stuff off the Internet here. Forget the issue about population or even the idea of maximising it. However, the Kannada native speakers map is based on facts and ground realities.
Let me explain the nature of the so called 'reliable sources' of linguistics for linguistic information on which Wikipedia's 'masters' depend on :
The current map of Kannada excludes following Kannada speaking regions from North West (Karwar) to South West (Kasaragod) in clockwise order : Gokarna, Ankola, Karwar, Belagavi, Hukkeri, Gadhinglaj, Sankeshwar, Saundalaga, Chikkodi, Kagal, Hupari, IchalKaranji, Kurundwad, Shirol, Arag, Lingnoor, Athani, Jath, Nandeshwar, Mangalwedha, Solapur, Naldurg, Murum, Belamb, Omerga, Bhalki, Aurad, Degloor, Madanoor, West Bodhan, Hunsa, Bichkunda, Jukkal, Kangti, Narayankhed, Zahirabad, Kohir, Malchalma, West Tandur(Karankote, Nawandgi), Utkoor, Ujjelli, West Makthal, Maganur, Macharla, Sindanur, Yemmiganur, Pattikonda, Adoni, Alur, Aspari, Guntakal, Vajrakarur, Pennar Ahobila, Ballari, Rayadurga, Kalyandurga, Roddam, Parigi, Madakasira, Hindupur, Lepakshi, Gudibande, Gauribidanur, Chikkaballapur, Sidlaghatta, Kolar, Malur, Bangarapet, South West of - Bagepalli, Chintamani, Srinivasapur taluks, West Mulbagal, Kolar Gold Fields, South West Kuppam, Hosur, North West Krishnagiri, Maharajakade, Vepanahalli, Marandahalli, Denkanikote, Male Mahadeshwarabetta of Kollegal, Hogenakal, Biligundla, Thalli, Anchetty, Rayakote, Burgur, Gundri, Sujjal Kere, Germala, Hasanur, Thalavadi, Ittare, entire Nilgiris plateau, Kotagiri, Coonoor, Ooty, Gudalur, Attappadi, Silent Valley National Park, Amarambala wildlife sanctuary hills, Kakkadampoyil North hills, entire Wayanad plateau, Mananthavadi, Kalpetta, Sultan Battery, Kodagu district (here Kannada is spoken along with Kodava Takk in Madikeri, Virajpet and Ponnampet 'Hobli's; elsewhere only Kannada is spoken), Kasaragod district up to Kanhangad (Hosdurga) and Dakshin Kannada districts (here Kannada is spoken along with Tulu).
The map misses South half of Chikkamagalur district, entire Hassan district, Kodagu district, South West of Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts which are the core of Achcha (pure) Kannada speaking regions! Other Kannada regions excluded from the map are : East Pavagada taluk, Gurumatkal of Yadgir district, Bidar, Raichur, Ballari and Belagavi cities also! Nilgiris, Wayanad district. Mantralaya, Hindupur, West Penukonda, etc.,
Reference : /info/en/?search=Belgaum_border_dispute, https://books.google.co.in/books?id=DccsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=pandegaon+keligaon&source=bl&ots=dmvzGMWsVH&sig=8kotyPX-8JUIAc_MLRAY4n7YV40&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixzLHq1_HKAhXOI44KHW_WDzwQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=pandegaon%20keligaon&f=false
If you just want to dismiss this detailed information as some lengthy stuff unworthy of examining and incorporating it in the wiki article, please go ahead! One can only be sorry for such sad state of affairs at Wikipedia and apathy towards the truth. If you want reliable sources as reference for this information, I may not be able to provide them as Justice Mahajan Committee report is not available on-line and is protected by copyrights and is only in the form of written material in books.
Update these areas in the map soon, else let Wikipedia lose completely its already eroding credibility! NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 09:38, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Uanfala, Then can you be of some help by reinstating my map on Kannada native speakers back? NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 17:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there, this may seem silly to bring up now, but back in 2009, on the Tupelo page, you added a reference to Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 with your edit here. Do you still have the book? We were wondering if the book actually applies the pepperidge tree common name to the the genus Nyssa or merely to the species Nyssa sylvatica.
I removed your reference and the pepperidge tree common name because I believe them to be botanically inaccurate for describing the entire Nyssa genus considering that other editions of the book only describe at the species level. I have been criticized for doing so since I don't have access to the exact edition you cited, though I do have access to other editions. Since you cited the book and I am wondering if you can tell us if Sunset Western Garden Book 1995:606-607 is referring to the actual genus or just the species. Or otherwise, are comfortable with the modifications and the current state of Tupelo? Thanks.-- MCEllis ( talk) 17:44, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
No problem! — kwami ( talk) 00:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, my name is Kwabena and I live in Southern California. I notice that on every article dealing with Ghanaians, Akans, and Ashantis, you seem to always put mutli-racial people on. Stop It. Mixed Ghanaians are NOT representative of a population of millions. Thanks. -Kwabena. Yellowfiver ( talk) 18:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Hey there! I'm curious why you merged the Macro-Yaeyama language group with Southern Ryukyuan and replaced the terminology cited in The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages. In the text, the authors were very clear that a distinction must be made between Macro-Yaeyama languages and other Southern Ryukyuan languages, and I therefore thought it should receive its own page and linguistic family tier in the infobox. Please let me know what I'm missing so I can improve my future linguistics edits. Cheers! — Lrschneider ( talk) 05:51, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Micmac pater noster.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 14:09, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Can ypu please take a look at the pages found in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/016 dump and deal with the weird unicode characters? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Please take a look at these pages too:
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Please, help me. Personal atack on the my user page and Eskimo page. Please -- Kmoksy ( talk) 13:23, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mandarin (linguistics). Since you had some involvement with the Mandarin (linguistics) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew ( talk) 19:22, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Help me. For terroristic personal atacks on my talk page. -- Kmoksy ( talk) 20:48, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article on Whistled language. I had never before heard of a whistled language. I have a few questions:
1) In the lead I found this sentence:
I'm wondering if more could be said so that this makes sense to interested English speakers.
2) I notice that there is no audio file so that readers could hear a sample of whistled speech. It would be nice if one or more could be found to add.
3) Do you think this article is too technical to allow for the possibility of improvement if the article were selected as one of the "Today's Articles for Improvement", or should it be left to linguistics experts? I notice there is a tag at the top of the article that has been there since 2009. – Corinne ( talk) 02:05, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, Can you please let me know the reason for which my article on Moundadan Chetty language deleted? It had all the valid references. It is a separate language similar to Badaga and Kannada. If you consider it not to be a separate language which has ISO request reference and a detailed case study also as references, what else is it? A dialect of some known language? What are the valid references to prove this? Please enlighten me. Also, please let me know your opinion about Edanadan Chetty language which is not the same as Moundadan Chetty or Wayanadan Chetty languages. Thanks!– NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 02:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
The Erina language article looks superficially plausible. But I can't find anything about it in the article links or on the internet; so like another user I am beginning to suspect it is a hoax. Do you know anything about it? — teb728 t c 08:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, there is this Biscayan dialect article with a clarification tag, I wonder if you could add the phonetics for those sounds, since you seem to be familiar with Basque phonology and phonetics. That would be helpful, regards Iñaki LL ( talk) 21:38, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Neither Voice (phonetics) or Voicelessness cites simple examples for the 'common reader' to make sense of. There are references to "obstruents" and "pairs", but at no point do we make it clear which are which — using pairs that are obvious to the average reader such as [d and t], [b and p] instead of more obscure examples invloving [dj] etc.. So, even though it is not (always) that clear-cut, can't we add something to the effect that "simplistically speaking/ traditionally, the voiced are..... and the voiceless are ...? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 16:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, The correct classification as per Harvey (2008) is Yirram (Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru, Nungali), Jingulu, and Ngurlun (Ngarnka, Binbinka, Gudanji, Wambaya). It has been suggested that Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru are closely related and that Binbinka, Gudanji and Wambaya are also closely related. I use the term 'language', because that is the appropriate term for speakers and owners of these languages. The ISO and derived codes for Australian languages are infamously incorrect. Ngarnka and Gudanji are not in a dialectal relationship, and no one has suggested this for fifty years or so (cf. any of the references on the page). This is why I deleted the ISO and glottolog codes. They're not very useful at all in this context, and actually serve to obscure the linguistic relationships between the languages. Please delete them again. West Barkly is an old term that is no longer considered genetic. It's a geographic grouping of Jingulu and Ngurlun. Please undo your adjustments. If you have relevant sources that support your case, let me know. Regards, David. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Osgarby ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I see you've changed the name of the entire article now from Ngarnka to Ngarnji, you've changed the alternative names around, and you've adjusted the information panel on the right as well. All of these adjustments are incorrect. Please revert all of these changes, as my original information was very precise about language names and ethnonyms. It is a complex distinction for Australian languages, and much of the information about these languages is unpublished, so while I'm not sure what your sources are, I know they are not up to date. The language name is Ngarnka and the enthnicity is Ngarnji (the distinction being in the gender of the noun: neuter vs. masculine). It is a similar distinction between, the neighbouring language Jingulu, spoken by the Jingili people (again, neuter vs. masculine). I'm not sure why you are making edits to this article. Do not feel the need to fix things up with this article in future, beyond reverting the changes you have made. Regards, David. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Osgarby ( talk • contribs) 09:58, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
I've heard this term ages ago, in an informal conversation like this one [3], and naively thought you might be interested in writing something on it or creating a redirect. Regards. Materialscientist ( talk) 01:06, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Do you have an address for email, please? I'm looking for someone with expertise in rongorongo. Iridia ( talk) 19:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
We've got a new hyphen discussion at Talk:Red giant branch#Requested move 28 April 2016. -- JorisvS ( talk) 18:44, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- There has been a tag with just "Pronunciation?" in the first line of the article George Santayana for a long time. If you have time, could you either supply the requested pronunciation guide or link to one, or delete the tag if you think no guide is necessary? It looks bad there at the beginning of the article. Thanks. – Corinne ( talk) 01:45, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you interacted with ZH8000 some time ago. So did I recently, and I found their contributions and method of interaction with others questionable at best. I'm considering whether to initiate a discussion with them about this, and if need be, a community discussion. Would you be interested in participating in these discussions? Regards, Sandstein 17:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
You might be able to improve on my recent edits to the article "
Leco language".
—
Wavelength (
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22:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
You might benefit from the article "
List of multilingual websites".
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Wavelength (
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23:00, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
please have a look at
/info/en/?search=Talk:Siouan_languages for the inclusion of the latest Language Science Press volume.
IMHO the LangSci books are a useful complement for Wikipedia articles on languages in general, but I have a conflict of interest and are a bit hesitant to include them. For Yakkha and Mauwake, things were beyond doubt, but Siouan is only 99% in my view.
I would appreciate if a principled solution how to deal with this could be found.
Jasy jatere (
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12:43, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at these two pages?
The first one has zero-width spacing (200B) and the other one characters in PUA. Can you please deal with these pages? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:41, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bangbay language. Since you had some involvement with the Bangbay language redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 ( talk) 21:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Boro language (Atlantic-Congo). Since you had some involvement with the Boro language (Atlantic-Congo) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 ( talk) 21:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'd have expected something like [ˈtɛnᵻsiːn] or [ˈtɛnᵻsaɪn] for tennessine, following the stress of Tennessee, as well as iodine and astatine (the other trisyllabic halogens). Moscovium and oganesson seem fine, but I admit to being really uncertain as to how nihonium is supposed to be pronounced: I can't seem to make up my mind whether that o is supposed to be [oʊ] or [ɒ] in English. Double sharp ( talk) 13:10, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
On a related note, since you made the Wikimedia Uus-TableImage.png image, could you make the Nh-TableImage.png, Mc-TableImage.png, Ts-TableImage.png and Og-TableImage.png images? Urhixidur ( talk) 00:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
I removed the puns from " Mikebrown" since they contained encyclopedic errors, per " talk:11714 Mikebrown." You might want to update your link to the old wikipage version instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=11714_Mikebrown&oldid=730482743 Nicole Sharp ( talk) 06:17, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Kwami, if you have a minute, would you look at Washo language? There's a guy there who is using his misinterpretation of a page out of Mithun's survey to mess with the consonant chart and replace a glottalized c' with ć because he can't correctly read the poor photocopy on a web site and thinks that's what a c with a superimposed apostrophe is. He refuses to read the Talk page and is edit warring. Thanks. -- Taivo ( talk) 20:41, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
x2013
) instead of
hyphens ("-," Unicode x2010
) in hyphenated language names. Is there a way to get a bot to correct these errors? Dashes/minuses should be used between numbers, and hyphens should be used between letters. I saw that you replaced a hyphen with a dash for the entry "
Uralic-Yukaghir languages" (hyphenated) to redirect to "
Uralic–Yukaghir languages" (dashed), which should be vice versa.
Nicole Sharp (
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04:13, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, what do you think about these changes made? [4] [5] [6] Do you think that the new references brought in merit for all the previous references/content to be deleted? Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 03:35, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Before I forget; if we were to give a transliteration of the name
Orontes I for the lede of the very same article, would it be, according
to Schmitt (2002);
"Orontes I (
Ancient Greek: Oróntēs, Aroandēs, from "
Old Persian: *Arvanta) was a (...)"
What do you think? Bests -
LouisAragon (
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05:53, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Especially with this edit, Nanshu is making sweeping changes to deRyukyuanize a huge number of articles, removes sourced statements that don't support his POV, inserting his own romanizations, and removing the word "Ryukyu" in its entirety. I am going to revert most-if-not-all of it, and will probably have to bring it to ANI. I'm just letting you know since you were involved with a lot of the Ryukyuan language articles. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 02:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
I just spent some time on this very impressive page and cannot discover why it is tagged as having the same name for different references. I can no longer find the references that are in question but that is another issue. It does look like there are two references in each citation and that is when I decided to try and go to the original editor.
I notice that you did a bit of editing on the date that these references were accessed (July 12, 2012), so I am hoping that you might have some insight.
I would welcome any input from an editor of your experience. Thank you Bobdog54 ( talk) 18:56, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Not sure if you want to get into this but there are move requests at Saraiki dialect, Pothohari dialect and Hindko dialect that are, at best, confusing. Just wondering if you have an informed opinion. Thanks. -- regentspark ( comment) 01:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
It had been extended edit war by Uanfala [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] .
Time to report User Uanfala for topic ban for Cherry picking, Forum shoping, Edit warring, ignoring talk page consensus on western punjabi diffrent dialect talk pages. Please you being a registered senior editor start the proceeding for Topic Ban and violation of 3Rs. 39.60.232.41 ( talk) 01:34, 2 November 2016 (UTC)₯€₠€₯
FYI: a (javascript required) and b. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 22:03, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the Burun languages on Wikipedia are classified as their own group within Nilotic. This is from Blench's (2012) proposed classification of Nilo-Saharan. As of 2016, Glottolog (2.7) puts them in Burun-Luo and Ethnologue (19) still maintains the older internal Luo classification. Since Blench, a lot linguists more specialised in Western Nilotic, including Torben Andersen who helped describe most of them, have maintained the Western Nilotic classification. (On a personal level, I think it may just be a graphical error on Blench's part. If you study the languages, it's clearly a very strange conclusion to jump to.) You seem to be the authority here, and having created the articles in the first place, I wanted to run it down with you first before I edit the individual language articles. -- Lestadii27 ( talk) 16:17, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello there, if you could not call contributions that you remove "BS" here that'd be great. @ Yamla:.
Is this a concept? does anyone besides Geoffrey Sampson use this term? 68.150.86.232 ( talk) 21:57, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwani I wanted to repoint the articles in English and Portuguese, such that Upper Guinea Creole links to Crioulos da Alta Guiné and not to Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau. However I then saw that in en_WP there is only one article, titled "Upper Guinea Creole", but which is in fact about "Guinea-Bissau Creole". Then to make matters worse, I see here that they treat the two names as interchangeable.
"Upper Guinea Creole(*S*)" is the family, which includes "Guinea-Bissau Creole" and Cape Verdean Creole. The infobox on both pages already say this. Right now Upper Guinea Creole describes only "Guinea-Bissau Creole", saying that it is "closely related to Cape Verdean creole".
My thinking is to move Upper Guinea Creole to "Guinea-Bissau Creole", and redict Guinea-Bissau Creole language to "Guinea-Bissau Creole". That part I can do. However, we then need an article on "Upper Guinea CreoleS" (plural) and a fix on the wikidata page, which I am not familiar with. Your thoughts, please. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 12:51, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Further to the above, I will work on the English of Crioulo de Casamança ( Casamance Creole). Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 15:56, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
The only hurdle is to clear "Guinea-Bissau Creole" to make way for "Upper Guinea Creole". Do you have user rights to do that? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 00:58, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Golden Spade |
Someone I know I can count on to clear the the rubble for others to be able to do their bit. May your spade never be blunt! Much appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:28, 15 November 2016 (UTC) |
Hi Kwamikagami, I've restored the redirect
Guinea-Bissau Creole for now. There is a requested move at
Talk:Upper Guinea Creole that closed as "not moved" in 2015. Unless circumstances have changed, a db-move request is not completely uncontroversial. I recommend a full
WP:RM discussion, i.e. {{
subst:requested move|Guinea-Bissau Creole|reason=that article is about this topic; that name should be a rd to the family since it includes Cabo Verde Creole}}
on
the talk. Hope that makes sense; cheers —
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02:01, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Any idea if this is genuine [13]? I have my doubts about the new editor who added this, can't seem to find any mention of Phupha language using a Cyrillic script (although there's very little info point blank, perhaps not surprising) and it seems a bit weird Jan Gebauer would somehow be involved. 17:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Ysolo. Since you had some involvement with the Ysolo redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Mark Dominus ( talk) 14:52, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Back in 2010, you added a bit on the tone classes of Zulu nouns at Zulu grammar, which is still in the article more or less unchanged. I'm having a bit of trouble interpreting your description of the different classes. I've been reading Cope's Zulu Tonal Morphology and it seems like your description of the HL class (Cope's class IV) doesn't fit. Specifically, Cope gives this example of extension of a noun and the resulting tone pattern: bàfánà > bàfányànà > bàfànyányànà. Your edit stated "high on stressed syllable of longer words, followed by low", but should this be the antepenultimate syllable (syllable before the stress) instead? Cope's example seems to suggest so.
In the LHL class, there similarly seems to be a problem since the description "high on syllable after the stressed syllable in longer words" seems to imply that only the final syllable is low, whereas it's actually LH > LHL > LHLL in Cope, so the high is one syllable further from the end each time a syllable is added. It is not clear to me if a hypothetical 5-syllable stem would be LHLLL or LLHLL.
The description of the HHL class (Cope's class III) also seems off. Cope gives the sequence ísíkhwámá > ísíkhwànyánà, which would fit your description if it instead said simply "high on stressed syllable, followed by low". There's only ever one syllable after the stressed one, after all. The plural of this noun puzzles me in Cope's description, since it's ízìkhwàmá, with a missing high tone on the third syllable. Do you have any idea why this might be? CodeCat ( talk) 22:10, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Please visit dispute resolution notice board and participate a debate on saraiki dialect of Punjabi language which is poorly written by Uanfala as a separate language contradictory to RFC decision. AksheKumar ( talk) 05:57, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours!
FWiW Bzuk (
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18:53, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Your vote Brother ?
[14] 182.188.99.212 ( talk) 18:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, A while back, you wrote most of our article on "Sinhala Braille". I'm looking for sources about the creator(s) of that system and the article doesn't have much in the way of sources about that history, reliable or otherwise. Do you have any sources on that (in English or otherwise) that cite who the creator(s) were? Thanks! Hobit ( talk) 17:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm just calling to your attention that when you simplified the file File:Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan.png, you inadvertently removed the state of Victoria (Australia)! Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 15:18, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm a linguist working on african and polynesian languages, and lingwiki. I'm also involved in glottolog and other things. I just wanted to say thanks, I see what you do and it is good. Especially appreciate the exclusive economic zone map of the pacific. So, are you a linguist at a university somewhere?
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Hi Kwami -- Can you take a look at all the Japanese and Korean-related language and dialect articles? There's currently an ongoing edit war with all sorts of new users and IP addresses as a result of the name "Altaic". See also Template_talk:Infobox_language#Rename_.22Altaic.22_in_familycolor Template talk:Infobox language – Rename "Altaic" in familycolor (I previously asked your advice on this matter and would appreciate it again). Thank you. — Io Katai ᵀᵃˡᵏ 23:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Surely if a language is official, it has to be so de jure, not so? And if anything is de facto, it therefore is so in practice but not in law, right? Locate "German is official language (de jure or de facto)" in German language. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:19, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of ISO 639-3 language codes reserved for local use. Since you had some involvement with the List of ISO 639-3 language codes reserved for local use redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Train2104 ( t • c) 06:09, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Is either of these technically more 'correct' in linguistic terminology?
Thnaks, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 15:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
"Kazakhstan's 76-year-old authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev" ... "on April 12" ... "ordered authorities to begin preparing for the switch from the Cyrillic alphabet to a Latin based script".
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hi there! i check some of your contributions with respect to language iso codes and ipa contents and i wonder if you could lend me a hand linking the page /info/en/?search=Help:IPA_for_Sardinian to the actual sardinian iso lang tag and to some pages where sardinian in ipa is used (or pointing me out how to do it), as i'm quite a newbie user. i explain better the issue here: /info/en/?search=Help_talk:IPA_for_Sardinian and here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Salvatore_Sirigu thanks in advance Sacdegemecs ( talk) 06:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, in 2013 you created articles, Praenestinian language and Lanuvian language. Unfortunately, both are essentially sub-stubs, which carry no information that can't be found in Latino-Faliscan languages. The fact that you created them anyway suggests that you know in fact more about them. Maybe you planned to expand them later. If so, could you tell us more about these Old Latin dialects? Steinbach ( talk) 16:57, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi
I notice that you closed Talk:Padmavathi Temple, Tiruchanur#Requested move 21 July 2015 with a comment Whether to remove the location is a different discussion, as there is not enough input here to decide. I note that Padmavathi Temple is currently a redlink. There seems to be no reason for the geographical disambiguation, and I am at a loss to understand why it is there.
This has come up again at Talk:Meenakshi Amman Temple#Requested move 24 May 2017. See also Talk:Meenakshi Amman Temple#This is a mess.
In both the discussion you closed and the current discussion there has been reference to a naming convention, but this does not appear to exist in English Wikipedia. I suspect that many (perhaps even all) of the main contributors to these articles have English as a second language, and that they are more familiar with procedures and conventions in another Wikipedia, and are applying those in English Wikipedia. If so, this must stop.
Your help would be greatly appreciated. Andrewa ( talk) 16:37, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Tai Then language. Since you had some involvement with the Tai Then language redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. RJFF ( talk) 21:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for creating the Wikipedia articles for practically every African language and family over these years. I've been going through the major African family/subfamily articles, making vector maps where they have been missing and easing article comprehensibility. I've made it my mission to ease the understanding of African languages and families. It was through this that I noticed you had created almost every article I was editing. All I have to say is, really great work on your massive contributions to Wikipedia. It's greatly appreciated. SpikeballUnion ( talk) 04:09, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. If you have some time, your input would be appreciated here. Thank you. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
If I see the page history correctly, looks like you have semi-protected and move-protected Wikipedia:IPA for Hawaiian (now moved to Help:IPA/Hawaiian) right after you created it as "Highly visible template". Was this some kind of mistake? If so I think it should be unprotected. Nardog ( talk) 05:09, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
I've made edits to East Sudanic related articles.
There are four Eastern Sudanic subclassifications. Bender 2000, Ehret 1984/2001, Starostin 2016 and Rilly 2008. I know Dimmendaal has one too but it's unpublished as far as I know. None of the proposed classifications are argued for using the historical-comparative method (regular sound changes, known sound laws and a corpus of proto-forms w/ reflexes) which is why there's no standard classification as is the case with the demonstrated, now stable, subgroups such as Daju and Nilotic.
I've changed the wikipedia nomenclature which has an Ehret and Bender bias to something that better reflects the modern state of research. Bender's classification is still the most influential of the four (see ethnologue) but Ehret's is not so. -- Lestadii27 ( talk) 19:50, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I looked on the edit history page of the Tasmanian languages, and I see that you added the phonology back in 2012, however; as of today it says information on the vowels that there were "five short" and "five long". Do you happen to still have the source you got the consonants from? It said "Schmidt 1952". What were the five long and short vowel sounds/phonemes/phonetic symbols that were listed in the source? Also does there exist a separate "y" sound in the languages? Another thing you stated was that the languages were the East-central and the South-east Tasmanian languages, could that also partially include the North-eastern language as well? Please let me know. Thanks. Fdomanico51997 ( talk) 04:06, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Kwami. I see you're semi-retired, not a particularly good thing for Wikipedia (though likely good for you!). If you do see this, I was wondering what your opinion is on Ethnologue as a source. The relevant discussion is at Talk:Balti_language#Devanagri_Script where Ethnologue is described as a reliable source and language authority used throughout Wikipedia. Regardless of all this, I hope your off-wiki life is going well and best wishes. -- regentspark ( comment) 03:42, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I was studying changes to SVG image ( /info/en/?search=File:DecimalSeparator.svg), and found that you had changed that image to show that in Croatia decimal mark in use is period (.). Although the whole image is commented as "dubious", I'd like to correct it. The image is used in article about decimal mark, where it is stated that this decimal mark is comma. Do you have any sources or references stating that decimal mark in Croatia is period? They probably exist, so I'd like to review them. In favor of comma is Croatian norm HRN ISO 31-0:1996 (Veličine i jedinice - 0. dio: Opća načela, i.e. Quantities and units, Part 0, General principles). Many thanks! DarkoS ( talk) 07:39, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Kwami
I have no idea how to do am image look-up on the wiki to see if something is already uploaded. Before I go to the trouble, could I have your opinion on this map 1, 2? Thanks. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Should MoS shortcut redirects be sorted to certain specific maintenance categories? An Rfc has been opened
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for a bit, your sentiments would be appreciated!
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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 03:12, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I know you're semi-retired, but I was wondering if you could help me with something quick. I just stumbled on a redirect you created, Hualfin language. It points to Cacán language, which doesn't mention the term, but a Google search turns up nothing of use. Usually I would take something like this straight to RfD, but I realize you're something of an expert on languages, so I thought I would ask you first what the reasoning is behind the redirect. Thanks.— PinkAmpers & (Je vous invite à me parler) 15:19, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Since you have edited a number of these articles in the past, whats your opinion on adding the infobox for "former countries" to ethnic, tribal and village organizations in the late prehistoric, protohistoric and early historic Florida and southeastern region? Another editor has begun adding the infobox (which I disagree with) to a number of these articles, sometimes removing and replacing other infoboxes in the process. ( see Tacatacuru revision history, Uzita (Florida), Pohoy , Tocobaga). The editor, User:Mangokeylime, seems to have a thing for infoboxes. Per our recent interactions ( User:Mangokeylime#Mound Builders box and Talk:Mississippian culture#Mound Builders navbox) I'd rather have some neutral parties knowledgeable of the subjects to weigh in rather than me jumping in unilaterally on this issue. Thanks, and kind regards, He iro 03:20, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please take a look at Talk:Latin grammar. A user has added a lot about conjugations which seem to me completely redundant with the material we already have on Latin conjugations. -- Macrakis ( talk) 18:05, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, the original source didn't have it. So we have to leave it like that. Presumably it would have been [21]. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 11:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that you have been deleting Ethnologue speaker numbers for !Kung languages. I completely understand that you feel that Ethnologue sources are not reliable for the !Kung languages, but Ethnologue uses Brenzinger's data in their work. However, even Ethnologue sources still use reliable data. For example, the current page for Ekoka !Kung on Ethnologue has data from Brenzinger and another linguist from 2016. However, I have not been able to use the readymade templates for that yet. Ethnologue is a scientific publication that has to have accurate data, is much more accurate than most other sources, and is even cited by other linguists in their work. Therefore, don't discredit the sources of Ethnologue, since it is trusted by many linguists to provide demographic data on languages. C1MM ( talk) 19:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I wonder if Media coverage of climate change is the best place for this to point. The lowercased version goes to Global warming controversy, but your target has since been pointed to the media link. Thoughts? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 12:03, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
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Great classification of Papuan languages.
Would you like to create page "Timothy Usher" ? Jkrn111 ( talk) 16:29, 7 April 2018 (UTC) |
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Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Could I ask for your attention to Bara-Malagasy? It appears to be a fork of Bara Malagasy, which you redirected five years ago. When I tried to categorize it today, the infobox claimed a language family classification quite at odds with the Glottolog code used. I've copied over the infobox families and ISO from Bara Malagasy, but I can see similar work by the article creator, e.g. Bara-Sakalava, Sakalava-Malagasy. I have no expertise in any branch of African or Austronesian linguistics, but you appear to, so I'd be grateful for any help: for all I know, the article creator might be correct and Glottolog wrong. The Mighty Glen ( talk) 10:46, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, back in 2012, when you edited Romic alphabet, you added two maintenance tags after “which had the pronunciations they retain in the IPA”. As often happens in such cases, nothing happened since. In this case, this may have to do with the fact that the tag is at a place where the problem “these may have been used earlier” is least conspicuous. The most explicit claim of first use is in the sentence before, referring to ⟨ɔ⟩. The sentence you marked implicitly makes such a claim about ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨ð⟩ through the word “resurrected”, but the word “borrowed”, used for ⟨θ⟩, makes no such claim, as it allows for others to have borrowed the letter before. Would it suffice to change the first sentence? Or, if you were particularly concerned about the second sentence, would it be an acceptable compromise to use “borrowed” for all so that we can get rid of the maintenance tags? (For me, this would be a compromise because I like the colorful word “resurrected” here.) ◄ Sebastian 02:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The blocked sock @ DerekWinters: split off a lot of language articles into sub-articles, leaving identifying details of the sources behind so that you might just see a surname and year as the source. I don't have the time to fix it and don't know where to report it. Maybe you'd be interested or know who else to ask? Doug Weller talk 15:56, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
Chao tones are the accepted convention among Southeast Asian linguists, including Paul Sidwell and Jerold Edmondson. They all have to painstakingly convert the tone sticks back into Chao tones when they use these Wiki articles. This limits the usability of the articles, and frustrates the main audience. Some of these scholars have personally complained to me about it.
On Wikipedia, articles on African languages also use slightly different transcription conventions.
We know that Chao tones are not "100% standard IPA," but anyone who delves into Southeast Asian linguistics will know what Chao tones are. They're like the ABC's of Southeast Asian linguistics. Everyone uses them for their precision and non-ambiguity. In this field, tone sticks are outdated and not well received. Only very old-fashioned Sinologists will use them nowadays.
I have not reverted any of your edits yet. Please discuss this issue with the Wiki community in order to reach a consensus. And if in further doubt, please contact the SE Asian linguistics experts in real life.
— Stevey7788 ( talk) 15:37, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I reverted this edit as it was sourced to a couple of magazine/newspaper articles and the original book (an 18th century book). Now, part of it may actually be true, but the other part, at least as far as I know, of dotting the consonants (Mei ezhuthu) was only re-introduced via that book, besides, I can't find much in terms of whether this was just a script transition timing issue that Beschi documented in the book or whether he actually created the change. Can you help with this please? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 07:01, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
See Kra–Dai languages#Names (section that I just wrote).
Nowadays, most SE Asian specialists prefer Kra-Dai over Tai-Kadai now: Norquest, Ostapirat, Baxter, Sagart, Sidwell, Enfield, Comrie, SEAlang.net, many more. If you read recent papers, they're all using this name now. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 19:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi @ Kwamikagami: I have been editing Lysiphyllum cunninghamii and am frustrated by my failure to find the aboriginal language/languages/language group in which jigal means mother-in-law. I saw that you had started at least one of the articles on a Kimberley language group and since all the references I could find came from the Kimberley, I was hoping you might be able to help pin it down. MargaretRDonald ( talk) 22:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, I would like to synchronize Wikipedia (language families, language isolates) with newer Glottolog versions. Do You agree ? Now it is complete (Glottolog 3.2) except Iberian, Meroitic and Maratino (unclassified on Wikipedia, language isolates on Glottolog). I Hope Usher´s classification will be accepted ( Jkrn111 ( talk) 15:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC))
I was going to ask what you thought about the situation where the subdivision Volta–Congo, below Atlantic–Congo, is missing from most Niger–Congo language infobox trees where it would otherwise belong, such as in Kwa languages or Benue–Congo. It is included in Volta–Niger, for example. Should I go round and add it to every Volta–Congo language that doesn't have it? SUM1 ( talk) 20:45, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, Could you please look at User talk:Explicit and help me ? Thanks. Jan, Prague, Czech Republic. Jkrn111 ( talk) 02:42, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
your changes to Template:Switzerland Cantons Labelled Map have introduced a scrollbar on the image on Firefox. Frietjes ( talk) 13:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I moved this article back to its previous page title. I spend almost all of my time on wikipedia editing articles about this country, and it is never referred to as Czechia, let alone in article titles. This is because hardly any sources do either, at present. Which articles were you thinking of when you said it's like other articles? I can't find any. Jdcooper ( talk) 21:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
How do u say ."Angel from the snow"thanks. Michaburt ( talk) 16:24, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Firstly, all the best for the new year. I see that the article !Kung language mentions South Africa in the infobox (added by you long after the other three countries) and also in the text, but not in the intro. What I actually want clarity on is whether these later additions on the !Kung in South Africa refer to indegenous South African San or whether these are the San from Angola and Namibia who were withdrawn from those countries by the South African military for fear of reprisals for collaborating with the SA army against the MPLA and SWAPO. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:05, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Dear admin, hello and thank you for your attention. But due to inserting two empty brackets, the edit has been undid by another administrator. Please have another looking to this page. Best Regards-- Shadegan ( talk) 12:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I notice that Japanese Wikipedia has added some footnotes quoting the original Edo-era documents, so I've written stuff at Talk:Dai dai shogi#some of the alternate piece moves. Hopefully my translation and interpretation are not those of a blind idiot (although that would make a reasonable name for a shogi-variant piece). It is to confirm this that I write to you! ^_^
Regarding gameplay, though, I did give this and maka-dai-dai a try. The latter is more playable, but both are ridiculous IMHO. The Chess Variant Pages has also finally added articles about the shogi variants, but even they do not cover tai shogi, and their article on taikyoku shogi is only directly quoted from that Japanese book published about it. (I assume tai stopped being impressive when taikyoku was invented. Neither is the largest chess variant anymore, given the existence of 16×16×16 chess since 1996.) Double sharp ( talk) 16:37, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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@Kwamikagami,
Hello, I understand you are from Japan and not a native of India. I want to know the reasons for which you have deleted the authentic Kannada language native speakers map added by me. No less valid reason is acceptable and can hide the facts for long. Truth alone shall always triumph no matter how hard the efforts made to hide it are! Satyameva Jayate. Love from Karnataka and India. Cheers NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 14:47, 11 February 2016 (UTC) |
Hi kwami, I'm against your removing of my articles of Kannada language native speakers map and their total population. As far as its rank among world language speakers is concerned, its not a problem to me. I am saying this as I am neutral to the topic and only in favour of the truth, not blindly relying on some university's flawed linguistic maps rather than observing the ground truths. I am going to accept only valid reasons for removing my maps. If you are not ready to put back my maps, then the current flawed version of Kannada native speakers map on wiki must also be immediately removed as its not based on ground realities[PS: Columbia university study reference is not a proof of ground reality]. I have visited and interacted with people in all these areas. Also, the Kannada population of 50 million is based on 2015 Government census estimates and not a mere 40 million of 2001! If you are not ready to update this population, then at least year 2001 - 40 million should be mentioned along with year 2015 - 50 million speakers, which has highly valid references. I'm ready for a healthy scholarly debate based on the ground realities. I invite you to India to visit these areas, know the lingua-franca of the true native speakers of these regions considering that hundreds of thousands have migrated to the border regions of Kannada native speakers as economic/social migrants in 19th and 20th centuries and it continues unabated till date! Cheers, NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 15:17, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Uanfala, What do you mean by your comment? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NitinBhargava2016 ( talk • contribs) 17:21, 12 February 2016
Hi,
As far as the Kannada native speakers map is concerned, its based on my research of having visited the border regions of Kannada speaking areas and Karnataka and on 'ground realities'. No one is cherry-picking stuff off the Internet here. Forget the issue about population or even the idea of maximising it. However, the Kannada native speakers map is based on facts and ground realities.
Let me explain the nature of the so called 'reliable sources' of linguistics for linguistic information on which Wikipedia's 'masters' depend on :
The current map of Kannada excludes following Kannada speaking regions from North West (Karwar) to South West (Kasaragod) in clockwise order : Gokarna, Ankola, Karwar, Belagavi, Hukkeri, Gadhinglaj, Sankeshwar, Saundalaga, Chikkodi, Kagal, Hupari, IchalKaranji, Kurundwad, Shirol, Arag, Lingnoor, Athani, Jath, Nandeshwar, Mangalwedha, Solapur, Naldurg, Murum, Belamb, Omerga, Bhalki, Aurad, Degloor, Madanoor, West Bodhan, Hunsa, Bichkunda, Jukkal, Kangti, Narayankhed, Zahirabad, Kohir, Malchalma, West Tandur(Karankote, Nawandgi), Utkoor, Ujjelli, West Makthal, Maganur, Macharla, Sindanur, Yemmiganur, Pattikonda, Adoni, Alur, Aspari, Guntakal, Vajrakarur, Pennar Ahobila, Ballari, Rayadurga, Kalyandurga, Roddam, Parigi, Madakasira, Hindupur, Lepakshi, Gudibande, Gauribidanur, Chikkaballapur, Sidlaghatta, Kolar, Malur, Bangarapet, South West of - Bagepalli, Chintamani, Srinivasapur taluks, West Mulbagal, Kolar Gold Fields, South West Kuppam, Hosur, North West Krishnagiri, Maharajakade, Vepanahalli, Marandahalli, Denkanikote, Male Mahadeshwarabetta of Kollegal, Hogenakal, Biligundla, Thalli, Anchetty, Rayakote, Burgur, Gundri, Sujjal Kere, Germala, Hasanur, Thalavadi, Ittare, entire Nilgiris plateau, Kotagiri, Coonoor, Ooty, Gudalur, Attappadi, Silent Valley National Park, Amarambala wildlife sanctuary hills, Kakkadampoyil North hills, entire Wayanad plateau, Mananthavadi, Kalpetta, Sultan Battery, Kodagu district (here Kannada is spoken along with Kodava Takk in Madikeri, Virajpet and Ponnampet 'Hobli's; elsewhere only Kannada is spoken), Kasaragod district up to Kanhangad (Hosdurga) and Dakshin Kannada districts (here Kannada is spoken along with Tulu).
The map misses South half of Chikkamagalur district, entire Hassan district, Kodagu district, South West of Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts which are the core of Achcha (pure) Kannada speaking regions! Other Kannada regions excluded from the map are : East Pavagada taluk, Gurumatkal of Yadgir district, Bidar, Raichur, Ballari and Belagavi cities also! Nilgiris, Wayanad district. Mantralaya, Hindupur, West Penukonda, etc.,
Reference : /info/en/?search=Belgaum_border_dispute, https://books.google.co.in/books?id=DccsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=pandegaon+keligaon&source=bl&ots=dmvzGMWsVH&sig=8kotyPX-8JUIAc_MLRAY4n7YV40&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixzLHq1_HKAhXOI44KHW_WDzwQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=pandegaon%20keligaon&f=false
If you just want to dismiss this detailed information as some lengthy stuff unworthy of examining and incorporating it in the wiki article, please go ahead! One can only be sorry for such sad state of affairs at Wikipedia and apathy towards the truth. If you want reliable sources as reference for this information, I may not be able to provide them as Justice Mahajan Committee report is not available on-line and is protected by copyrights and is only in the form of written material in books.
Update these areas in the map soon, else let Wikipedia lose completely its already eroding credibility! NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 09:38, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Uanfala, Then can you be of some help by reinstating my map on Kannada native speakers back? NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 17:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there, this may seem silly to bring up now, but back in 2009, on the Tupelo page, you added a reference to Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 with your edit here. Do you still have the book? We were wondering if the book actually applies the pepperidge tree common name to the the genus Nyssa or merely to the species Nyssa sylvatica.
I removed your reference and the pepperidge tree common name because I believe them to be botanically inaccurate for describing the entire Nyssa genus considering that other editions of the book only describe at the species level. I have been criticized for doing so since I don't have access to the exact edition you cited, though I do have access to other editions. Since you cited the book and I am wondering if you can tell us if Sunset Western Garden Book 1995:606-607 is referring to the actual genus or just the species. Or otherwise, are comfortable with the modifications and the current state of Tupelo? Thanks.-- MCEllis ( talk) 17:44, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
No problem! — kwami ( talk) 00:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, my name is Kwabena and I live in Southern California. I notice that on every article dealing with Ghanaians, Akans, and Ashantis, you seem to always put mutli-racial people on. Stop It. Mixed Ghanaians are NOT representative of a population of millions. Thanks. -Kwabena. Yellowfiver ( talk) 18:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
Hey there! I'm curious why you merged the Macro-Yaeyama language group with Southern Ryukyuan and replaced the terminology cited in The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages. In the text, the authors were very clear that a distinction must be made between Macro-Yaeyama languages and other Southern Ryukyuan languages, and I therefore thought it should receive its own page and linguistic family tier in the infobox. Please let me know what I'm missing so I can improve my future linguistics edits. Cheers! — Lrschneider ( talk) 05:51, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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Can ypu please take a look at the pages found in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/016 dump and deal with the weird unicode characters? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Please take a look at these pages too:
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Please, help me. Personal atack on the my user page and Eskimo page. Please -- Kmoksy ( talk) 13:23, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mandarin (linguistics). Since you had some involvement with the Mandarin (linguistics) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew ( talk) 19:22, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Help me. For terroristic personal atacks on my talk page. -- Kmoksy ( talk) 20:48, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article on Whistled language. I had never before heard of a whistled language. I have a few questions:
1) In the lead I found this sentence:
I'm wondering if more could be said so that this makes sense to interested English speakers.
2) I notice that there is no audio file so that readers could hear a sample of whistled speech. It would be nice if one or more could be found to add.
3) Do you think this article is too technical to allow for the possibility of improvement if the article were selected as one of the "Today's Articles for Improvement", or should it be left to linguistics experts? I notice there is a tag at the top of the article that has been there since 2009. – Corinne ( talk) 02:05, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, Can you please let me know the reason for which my article on Moundadan Chetty language deleted? It had all the valid references. It is a separate language similar to Badaga and Kannada. If you consider it not to be a separate language which has ISO request reference and a detailed case study also as references, what else is it? A dialect of some known language? What are the valid references to prove this? Please enlighten me. Also, please let me know your opinion about Edanadan Chetty language which is not the same as Moundadan Chetty or Wayanadan Chetty languages. Thanks!– NitinBhargava2016 ( talk) 02:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
The Erina language article looks superficially plausible. But I can't find anything about it in the article links or on the internet; so like another user I am beginning to suspect it is a hoax. Do you know anything about it? — teb728 t c 08:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, there is this Biscayan dialect article with a clarification tag, I wonder if you could add the phonetics for those sounds, since you seem to be familiar with Basque phonology and phonetics. That would be helpful, regards Iñaki LL ( talk) 21:38, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Neither Voice (phonetics) or Voicelessness cites simple examples for the 'common reader' to make sense of. There are references to "obstruents" and "pairs", but at no point do we make it clear which are which — using pairs that are obvious to the average reader such as [d and t], [b and p] instead of more obscure examples invloving [dj] etc.. So, even though it is not (always) that clear-cut, can't we add something to the effect that "simplistically speaking/ traditionally, the voiced are..... and the voiceless are ...? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 16:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, The correct classification as per Harvey (2008) is Yirram (Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru, Nungali), Jingulu, and Ngurlun (Ngarnka, Binbinka, Gudanji, Wambaya). It has been suggested that Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru are closely related and that Binbinka, Gudanji and Wambaya are also closely related. I use the term 'language', because that is the appropriate term for speakers and owners of these languages. The ISO and derived codes for Australian languages are infamously incorrect. Ngarnka and Gudanji are not in a dialectal relationship, and no one has suggested this for fifty years or so (cf. any of the references on the page). This is why I deleted the ISO and glottolog codes. They're not very useful at all in this context, and actually serve to obscure the linguistic relationships between the languages. Please delete them again. West Barkly is an old term that is no longer considered genetic. It's a geographic grouping of Jingulu and Ngurlun. Please undo your adjustments. If you have relevant sources that support your case, let me know. Regards, David. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Osgarby ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I see you've changed the name of the entire article now from Ngarnka to Ngarnji, you've changed the alternative names around, and you've adjusted the information panel on the right as well. All of these adjustments are incorrect. Please revert all of these changes, as my original information was very precise about language names and ethnonyms. It is a complex distinction for Australian languages, and much of the information about these languages is unpublished, so while I'm not sure what your sources are, I know they are not up to date. The language name is Ngarnka and the enthnicity is Ngarnji (the distinction being in the gender of the noun: neuter vs. masculine). It is a similar distinction between, the neighbouring language Jingulu, spoken by the Jingili people (again, neuter vs. masculine). I'm not sure why you are making edits to this article. Do not feel the need to fix things up with this article in future, beyond reverting the changes you have made. Regards, David. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Osgarby ( talk • contribs) 09:58, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
I've heard this term ages ago, in an informal conversation like this one [3], and naively thought you might be interested in writing something on it or creating a redirect. Regards. Materialscientist ( talk) 01:06, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Do you have an address for email, please? I'm looking for someone with expertise in rongorongo. Iridia ( talk) 19:41, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
We've got a new hyphen discussion at Talk:Red giant branch#Requested move 28 April 2016. -- JorisvS ( talk) 18:44, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- There has been a tag with just "Pronunciation?" in the first line of the article George Santayana for a long time. If you have time, could you either supply the requested pronunciation guide or link to one, or delete the tag if you think no guide is necessary? It looks bad there at the beginning of the article. Thanks. – Corinne ( talk) 01:45, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you interacted with ZH8000 some time ago. So did I recently, and I found their contributions and method of interaction with others questionable at best. I'm considering whether to initiate a discussion with them about this, and if need be, a community discussion. Would you be interested in participating in these discussions? Regards, Sandstein 17:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
You might be able to improve on my recent edits to the article "
Leco language".
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Wavelength (
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22:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
You might benefit from the article "
List of multilingual websites".
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Wavelength (
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23:00, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
please have a look at
/info/en/?search=Talk:Siouan_languages for the inclusion of the latest Language Science Press volume.
IMHO the LangSci books are a useful complement for Wikipedia articles on languages in general, but I have a conflict of interest and are a bit hesitant to include them. For Yakkha and Mauwake, things were beyond doubt, but Siouan is only 99% in my view.
I would appreciate if a principled solution how to deal with this could be found.
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12:43, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at these two pages?
The first one has zero-width spacing (200B) and the other one characters in PUA. Can you please deal with these pages? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:41, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bangbay language. Since you had some involvement with the Bangbay language redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 ( talk) 21:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'd have expected something like [ˈtɛnᵻsiːn] or [ˈtɛnᵻsaɪn] for tennessine, following the stress of Tennessee, as well as iodine and astatine (the other trisyllabic halogens). Moscovium and oganesson seem fine, but I admit to being really uncertain as to how nihonium is supposed to be pronounced: I can't seem to make up my mind whether that o is supposed to be [oʊ] or [ɒ] in English. Double sharp ( talk) 13:10, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
On a related note, since you made the Wikimedia Uus-TableImage.png image, could you make the Nh-TableImage.png, Mc-TableImage.png, Ts-TableImage.png and Og-TableImage.png images? Urhixidur ( talk) 00:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
I removed the puns from " Mikebrown" since they contained encyclopedic errors, per " talk:11714 Mikebrown." You might want to update your link to the old wikipage version instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=11714_Mikebrown&oldid=730482743 Nicole Sharp ( talk) 06:17, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Kwami, if you have a minute, would you look at Washo language? There's a guy there who is using his misinterpretation of a page out of Mithun's survey to mess with the consonant chart and replace a glottalized c' with ć because he can't correctly read the poor photocopy on a web site and thinks that's what a c with a superimposed apostrophe is. He refuses to read the Talk page and is edit warring. Thanks. -- Taivo ( talk) 20:41, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
x2013
) instead of
hyphens ("-," Unicode x2010
) in hyphenated language names. Is there a way to get a bot to correct these errors? Dashes/minuses should be used between numbers, and hyphens should be used between letters. I saw that you replaced a hyphen with a dash for the entry "
Uralic-Yukaghir languages" (hyphenated) to redirect to "
Uralic–Yukaghir languages" (dashed), which should be vice versa.
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Hi Kwami, what do you think about these changes made? [4] [5] [6] Do you think that the new references brought in merit for all the previous references/content to be deleted? Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 03:35, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Before I forget; if we were to give a transliteration of the name
Orontes I for the lede of the very same article, would it be, according
to Schmitt (2002);
"Orontes I (
Ancient Greek: Oróntēs, Aroandēs, from "
Old Persian: *Arvanta) was a (...)"
What do you think? Bests -
LouisAragon (
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05:53, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Especially with this edit, Nanshu is making sweeping changes to deRyukyuanize a huge number of articles, removes sourced statements that don't support his POV, inserting his own romanizations, and removing the word "Ryukyu" in its entirety. I am going to revert most-if-not-all of it, and will probably have to bring it to ANI. I'm just letting you know since you were involved with a lot of the Ryukyuan language articles. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 02:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
I just spent some time on this very impressive page and cannot discover why it is tagged as having the same name for different references. I can no longer find the references that are in question but that is another issue. It does look like there are two references in each citation and that is when I decided to try and go to the original editor.
I notice that you did a bit of editing on the date that these references were accessed (July 12, 2012), so I am hoping that you might have some insight.
I would welcome any input from an editor of your experience. Thank you Bobdog54 ( talk) 18:56, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Not sure if you want to get into this but there are move requests at Saraiki dialect, Pothohari dialect and Hindko dialect that are, at best, confusing. Just wondering if you have an informed opinion. Thanks. -- regentspark ( comment) 01:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
It had been extended edit war by Uanfala [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] .
Time to report User Uanfala for topic ban for Cherry picking, Forum shoping, Edit warring, ignoring talk page consensus on western punjabi diffrent dialect talk pages. Please you being a registered senior editor start the proceeding for Topic Ban and violation of 3Rs. 39.60.232.41 ( talk) 01:34, 2 November 2016 (UTC)₯€₠€₯
FYI: a (javascript required) and b. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 22:03, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the Burun languages on Wikipedia are classified as their own group within Nilotic. This is from Blench's (2012) proposed classification of Nilo-Saharan. As of 2016, Glottolog (2.7) puts them in Burun-Luo and Ethnologue (19) still maintains the older internal Luo classification. Since Blench, a lot linguists more specialised in Western Nilotic, including Torben Andersen who helped describe most of them, have maintained the Western Nilotic classification. (On a personal level, I think it may just be a graphical error on Blench's part. If you study the languages, it's clearly a very strange conclusion to jump to.) You seem to be the authority here, and having created the articles in the first place, I wanted to run it down with you first before I edit the individual language articles. -- Lestadii27 ( talk) 16:17, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello there, if you could not call contributions that you remove "BS" here that'd be great. @ Yamla:.
Is this a concept? does anyone besides Geoffrey Sampson use this term? 68.150.86.232 ( talk) 21:57, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kwani I wanted to repoint the articles in English and Portuguese, such that Upper Guinea Creole links to Crioulos da Alta Guiné and not to Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau. However I then saw that in en_WP there is only one article, titled "Upper Guinea Creole", but which is in fact about "Guinea-Bissau Creole". Then to make matters worse, I see here that they treat the two names as interchangeable.
"Upper Guinea Creole(*S*)" is the family, which includes "Guinea-Bissau Creole" and Cape Verdean Creole. The infobox on both pages already say this. Right now Upper Guinea Creole describes only "Guinea-Bissau Creole", saying that it is "closely related to Cape Verdean creole".
My thinking is to move Upper Guinea Creole to "Guinea-Bissau Creole", and redict Guinea-Bissau Creole language to "Guinea-Bissau Creole". That part I can do. However, we then need an article on "Upper Guinea CreoleS" (plural) and a fix on the wikidata page, which I am not familiar with. Your thoughts, please. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 12:51, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Further to the above, I will work on the English of Crioulo de Casamança ( Casamance Creole). Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 15:56, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
The only hurdle is to clear "Guinea-Bissau Creole" to make way for "Upper Guinea Creole". Do you have user rights to do that? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 00:58, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Golden Spade |
Someone I know I can count on to clear the the rubble for others to be able to do their bit. May your spade never be blunt! Much appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:28, 15 November 2016 (UTC) |
Hi Kwamikagami, I've restored the redirect
Guinea-Bissau Creole for now. There is a requested move at
Talk:Upper Guinea Creole that closed as "not moved" in 2015. Unless circumstances have changed, a db-move request is not completely uncontroversial. I recommend a full
WP:RM discussion, i.e. {{
subst:requested move|Guinea-Bissau Creole|reason=that article is about this topic; that name should be a rd to the family since it includes Cabo Verde Creole}}
on
the talk. Hope that makes sense; cheers —
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Any idea if this is genuine [13]? I have my doubts about the new editor who added this, can't seem to find any mention of Phupha language using a Cyrillic script (although there's very little info point blank, perhaps not surprising) and it seems a bit weird Jan Gebauer would somehow be involved. 17:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
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Back in 2010, you added a bit on the tone classes of Zulu nouns at Zulu grammar, which is still in the article more or less unchanged. I'm having a bit of trouble interpreting your description of the different classes. I've been reading Cope's Zulu Tonal Morphology and it seems like your description of the HL class (Cope's class IV) doesn't fit. Specifically, Cope gives this example of extension of a noun and the resulting tone pattern: bàfánà > bàfányànà > bàfànyányànà. Your edit stated "high on stressed syllable of longer words, followed by low", but should this be the antepenultimate syllable (syllable before the stress) instead? Cope's example seems to suggest so.
In the LHL class, there similarly seems to be a problem since the description "high on syllable after the stressed syllable in longer words" seems to imply that only the final syllable is low, whereas it's actually LH > LHL > LHLL in Cope, so the high is one syllable further from the end each time a syllable is added. It is not clear to me if a hypothetical 5-syllable stem would be LHLLL or LLHLL.
The description of the HHL class (Cope's class III) also seems off. Cope gives the sequence ísíkhwámá > ísíkhwànyánà, which would fit your description if it instead said simply "high on stressed syllable, followed by low". There's only ever one syllable after the stressed one, after all. The plural of this noun puzzles me in Cope's description, since it's ízìkhwàmá, with a missing high tone on the third syllable. Do you have any idea why this might be? CodeCat ( talk) 22:10, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Please visit dispute resolution notice board and participate a debate on saraiki dialect of Punjabi language which is poorly written by Uanfala as a separate language contradictory to RFC decision. AksheKumar ( talk) 05:57, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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[14] 182.188.99.212 ( talk) 18:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, A while back, you wrote most of our article on "Sinhala Braille". I'm looking for sources about the creator(s) of that system and the article doesn't have much in the way of sources about that history, reliable or otherwise. Do you have any sources on that (in English or otherwise) that cite who the creator(s) were? Thanks! Hobit ( talk) 17:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
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I'm just calling to your attention that when you simplified the file File:Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan.png, you inadvertently removed the state of Victoria (Australia)! Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 15:18, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm a linguist working on african and polynesian languages, and lingwiki. I'm also involved in glottolog and other things. I just wanted to say thanks, I see what you do and it is good. Especially appreciate the exclusive economic zone map of the pacific. So, are you a linguist at a university somewhere?
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Hi Kwami -- Can you take a look at all the Japanese and Korean-related language and dialect articles? There's currently an ongoing edit war with all sorts of new users and IP addresses as a result of the name "Altaic". See also Template_talk:Infobox_language#Rename_.22Altaic.22_in_familycolor Template talk:Infobox language – Rename "Altaic" in familycolor (I previously asked your advice on this matter and would appreciate it again). Thank you. — Io Katai ᵀᵃˡᵏ 23:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Surely if a language is official, it has to be so de jure, not so? And if anything is de facto, it therefore is so in practice but not in law, right? Locate "German is official language (de jure or de facto)" in German language. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:19, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of ISO 639-3 language codes reserved for local use. Since you had some involvement with the List of ISO 639-3 language codes reserved for local use redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Train2104 ( t • c) 06:09, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Is either of these technically more 'correct' in linguistic terminology?
Thnaks, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 15:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
"Kazakhstan's 76-year-old authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev" ... "on April 12" ... "ordered authorities to begin preparing for the switch from the Cyrillic alphabet to a Latin based script".
— Wavelength ( talk) 16:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC) and 17:10, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
hi there! i check some of your contributions with respect to language iso codes and ipa contents and i wonder if you could lend me a hand linking the page /info/en/?search=Help:IPA_for_Sardinian to the actual sardinian iso lang tag and to some pages where sardinian in ipa is used (or pointing me out how to do it), as i'm quite a newbie user. i explain better the issue here: /info/en/?search=Help_talk:IPA_for_Sardinian and here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Salvatore_Sirigu thanks in advance Sacdegemecs ( talk) 06:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, in 2013 you created articles, Praenestinian language and Lanuvian language. Unfortunately, both are essentially sub-stubs, which carry no information that can't be found in Latino-Faliscan languages. The fact that you created them anyway suggests that you know in fact more about them. Maybe you planned to expand them later. If so, could you tell us more about these Old Latin dialects? Steinbach ( talk) 16:57, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Haitian Standard French. Since you had some involvement with the Haitian Standard French redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Savvyjack23 ( talk) 22:27, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi
I notice that you closed Talk:Padmavathi Temple, Tiruchanur#Requested move 21 July 2015 with a comment Whether to remove the location is a different discussion, as there is not enough input here to decide. I note that Padmavathi Temple is currently a redlink. There seems to be no reason for the geographical disambiguation, and I am at a loss to understand why it is there.
This has come up again at Talk:Meenakshi Amman Temple#Requested move 24 May 2017. See also Talk:Meenakshi Amman Temple#This is a mess.
In both the discussion you closed and the current discussion there has been reference to a naming convention, but this does not appear to exist in English Wikipedia. I suspect that many (perhaps even all) of the main contributors to these articles have English as a second language, and that they are more familiar with procedures and conventions in another Wikipedia, and are applying those in English Wikipedia. If so, this must stop.
Your help would be greatly appreciated. Andrewa ( talk) 16:37, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Tai Then language. Since you had some involvement with the Tai Then language redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. RJFF ( talk) 21:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for creating the Wikipedia articles for practically every African language and family over these years. I've been going through the major African family/subfamily articles, making vector maps where they have been missing and easing article comprehensibility. I've made it my mission to ease the understanding of African languages and families. It was through this that I noticed you had created almost every article I was editing. All I have to say is, really great work on your massive contributions to Wikipedia. It's greatly appreciated. SpikeballUnion ( talk) 04:09, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. If you have some time, your input would be appreciated here. Thank you. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
If I see the page history correctly, looks like you have semi-protected and move-protected Wikipedia:IPA for Hawaiian (now moved to Help:IPA/Hawaiian) right after you created it as "Highly visible template". Was this some kind of mistake? If so I think it should be unprotected. Nardog ( talk) 05:09, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
I've made edits to East Sudanic related articles.
There are four Eastern Sudanic subclassifications. Bender 2000, Ehret 1984/2001, Starostin 2016 and Rilly 2008. I know Dimmendaal has one too but it's unpublished as far as I know. None of the proposed classifications are argued for using the historical-comparative method (regular sound changes, known sound laws and a corpus of proto-forms w/ reflexes) which is why there's no standard classification as is the case with the demonstrated, now stable, subgroups such as Daju and Nilotic.
I've changed the wikipedia nomenclature which has an Ehret and Bender bias to something that better reflects the modern state of research. Bender's classification is still the most influential of the four (see ethnologue) but Ehret's is not so. -- Lestadii27 ( talk) 19:50, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I looked on the edit history page of the Tasmanian languages, and I see that you added the phonology back in 2012, however; as of today it says information on the vowels that there were "five short" and "five long". Do you happen to still have the source you got the consonants from? It said "Schmidt 1952". What were the five long and short vowel sounds/phonemes/phonetic symbols that were listed in the source? Also does there exist a separate "y" sound in the languages? Another thing you stated was that the languages were the East-central and the South-east Tasmanian languages, could that also partially include the North-eastern language as well? Please let me know. Thanks. Fdomanico51997 ( talk) 04:06, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Alfabet palcowy2.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 17:27, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I see you're semi-retired, not a particularly good thing for Wikipedia (though likely good for you!). If you do see this, I was wondering what your opinion is on Ethnologue as a source. The relevant discussion is at Talk:Balti_language#Devanagri_Script where Ethnologue is described as a reliable source and language authority used throughout Wikipedia. Regardless of all this, I hope your off-wiki life is going well and best wishes. -- regentspark ( comment) 03:42, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I was studying changes to SVG image ( /info/en/?search=File:DecimalSeparator.svg), and found that you had changed that image to show that in Croatia decimal mark in use is period (.). Although the whole image is commented as "dubious", I'd like to correct it. The image is used in article about decimal mark, where it is stated that this decimal mark is comma. Do you have any sources or references stating that decimal mark in Croatia is period? They probably exist, so I'd like to review them. In favor of comma is Croatian norm HRN ISO 31-0:1996 (Veličine i jedinice - 0. dio: Opća načela, i.e. Quantities and units, Part 0, General principles). Many thanks! DarkoS ( talk) 07:39, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Kwami
I have no idea how to do am image look-up on the wiki to see if something is already uploaded. Before I go to the trouble, could I have your opinion on this map 1, 2? Thanks. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Should MoS shortcut redirects be sorted to certain specific maintenance categories? An Rfc has been opened
on this talk page to answer that question. If this interests you and you should decide to semi-unretire
for a bit, your sentiments would be appreciated!
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put'r there
17:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 03:12, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I know you're semi-retired, but I was wondering if you could help me with something quick. I just stumbled on a redirect you created, Hualfin language. It points to Cacán language, which doesn't mention the term, but a Google search turns up nothing of use. Usually I would take something like this straight to RfD, but I realize you're something of an expert on languages, so I thought I would ask you first what the reasoning is behind the redirect. Thanks.— PinkAmpers & (Je vous invite à me parler) 15:19, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Since you have edited a number of these articles in the past, whats your opinion on adding the infobox for "former countries" to ethnic, tribal and village organizations in the late prehistoric, protohistoric and early historic Florida and southeastern region? Another editor has begun adding the infobox (which I disagree with) to a number of these articles, sometimes removing and replacing other infoboxes in the process. ( see Tacatacuru revision history, Uzita (Florida), Pohoy , Tocobaga). The editor, User:Mangokeylime, seems to have a thing for infoboxes. Per our recent interactions ( User:Mangokeylime#Mound Builders box and Talk:Mississippian culture#Mound Builders navbox) I'd rather have some neutral parties knowledgeable of the subjects to weigh in rather than me jumping in unilaterally on this issue. Thanks, and kind regards, He iro 03:20, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please take a look at Talk:Latin grammar. A user has added a lot about conjugations which seem to me completely redundant with the material we already have on Latin conjugations. -- Macrakis ( talk) 18:05, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, the original source didn't have it. So we have to leave it like that. Presumably it would have been [21]. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 11:18, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that you have been deleting Ethnologue speaker numbers for !Kung languages. I completely understand that you feel that Ethnologue sources are not reliable for the !Kung languages, but Ethnologue uses Brenzinger's data in their work. However, even Ethnologue sources still use reliable data. For example, the current page for Ekoka !Kung on Ethnologue has data from Brenzinger and another linguist from 2016. However, I have not been able to use the readymade templates for that yet. Ethnologue is a scientific publication that has to have accurate data, is much more accurate than most other sources, and is even cited by other linguists in their work. Therefore, don't discredit the sources of Ethnologue, since it is trusted by many linguists to provide demographic data on languages. C1MM ( talk) 19:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I wonder if Media coverage of climate change is the best place for this to point. The lowercased version goes to Global warming controversy, but your target has since been pointed to the media link. Thoughts? ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 12:03, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
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Great classification of Papuan languages.
Would you like to create page "Timothy Usher" ? Jkrn111 ( talk) 16:29, 7 April 2018 (UTC) |
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Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Could I ask for your attention to Bara-Malagasy? It appears to be a fork of Bara Malagasy, which you redirected five years ago. When I tried to categorize it today, the infobox claimed a language family classification quite at odds with the Glottolog code used. I've copied over the infobox families and ISO from Bara Malagasy, but I can see similar work by the article creator, e.g. Bara-Sakalava, Sakalava-Malagasy. I have no expertise in any branch of African or Austronesian linguistics, but you appear to, so I'd be grateful for any help: for all I know, the article creator might be correct and Glottolog wrong. The Mighty Glen ( talk) 10:46, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, back in 2012, when you edited Romic alphabet, you added two maintenance tags after “which had the pronunciations they retain in the IPA”. As often happens in such cases, nothing happened since. In this case, this may have to do with the fact that the tag is at a place where the problem “these may have been used earlier” is least conspicuous. The most explicit claim of first use is in the sentence before, referring to ⟨ɔ⟩. The sentence you marked implicitly makes such a claim about ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨ð⟩ through the word “resurrected”, but the word “borrowed”, used for ⟨θ⟩, makes no such claim, as it allows for others to have borrowed the letter before. Would it suffice to change the first sentence? Or, if you were particularly concerned about the second sentence, would it be an acceptable compromise to use “borrowed” for all so that we can get rid of the maintenance tags? (For me, this would be a compromise because I like the colorful word “resurrected” here.) ◄ Sebastian 02:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The blocked sock @ DerekWinters: split off a lot of language articles into sub-articles, leaving identifying details of the sources behind so that you might just see a surname and year as the source. I don't have the time to fix it and don't know where to report it. Maybe you'd be interested or know who else to ask? Doug Weller talk 15:56, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
Chao tones are the accepted convention among Southeast Asian linguists, including Paul Sidwell and Jerold Edmondson. They all have to painstakingly convert the tone sticks back into Chao tones when they use these Wiki articles. This limits the usability of the articles, and frustrates the main audience. Some of these scholars have personally complained to me about it.
On Wikipedia, articles on African languages also use slightly different transcription conventions.
We know that Chao tones are not "100% standard IPA," but anyone who delves into Southeast Asian linguistics will know what Chao tones are. They're like the ABC's of Southeast Asian linguistics. Everyone uses them for their precision and non-ambiguity. In this field, tone sticks are outdated and not well received. Only very old-fashioned Sinologists will use them nowadays.
I have not reverted any of your edits yet. Please discuss this issue with the Wiki community in order to reach a consensus. And if in further doubt, please contact the SE Asian linguistics experts in real life.
— Stevey7788 ( talk) 15:37, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I reverted this edit as it was sourced to a couple of magazine/newspaper articles and the original book (an 18th century book). Now, part of it may actually be true, but the other part, at least as far as I know, of dotting the consonants (Mei ezhuthu) was only re-introduced via that book, besides, I can't find much in terms of whether this was just a script transition timing issue that Beschi documented in the book or whether he actually created the change. Can you help with this please? cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 07:01, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
See Kra–Dai languages#Names (section that I just wrote).
Nowadays, most SE Asian specialists prefer Kra-Dai over Tai-Kadai now: Norquest, Ostapirat, Baxter, Sagart, Sidwell, Enfield, Comrie, SEAlang.net, many more. If you read recent papers, they're all using this name now. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 19:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi @ Kwamikagami: I have been editing Lysiphyllum cunninghamii and am frustrated by my failure to find the aboriginal language/languages/language group in which jigal means mother-in-law. I saw that you had started at least one of the articles on a Kimberley language group and since all the references I could find came from the Kimberley, I was hoping you might be able to help pin it down. MargaretRDonald ( talk) 22:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami, I would like to synchronize Wikipedia (language families, language isolates) with newer Glottolog versions. Do You agree ? Now it is complete (Glottolog 3.2) except Iberian, Meroitic and Maratino (unclassified on Wikipedia, language isolates on Glottolog). I Hope Usher´s classification will be accepted ( Jkrn111 ( talk) 15:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC))
I was going to ask what you thought about the situation where the subdivision Volta–Congo, below Atlantic–Congo, is missing from most Niger–Congo language infobox trees where it would otherwise belong, such as in Kwa languages or Benue–Congo. It is included in Volta–Niger, for example. Should I go round and add it to every Volta–Congo language that doesn't have it? SUM1 ( talk) 20:45, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, Could you please look at User talk:Explicit and help me ? Thanks. Jan, Prague, Czech Republic. Jkrn111 ( talk) 02:42, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
your changes to Template:Switzerland Cantons Labelled Map have introduced a scrollbar on the image on Firefox. Frietjes ( talk) 13:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I moved this article back to its previous page title. I spend almost all of my time on wikipedia editing articles about this country, and it is never referred to as Czechia, let alone in article titles. This is because hardly any sources do either, at present. Which articles were you thinking of when you said it's like other articles? I can't find any. Jdcooper ( talk) 21:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)