Talk:Blackfoot language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which collaborates on Native American, First Nations, Inuit, Métis and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale.
Suggested article edit guidelines: To help us prioritise our workload, and in readiness for Wikipedia:1.0, we need to assess our articles for Quality. If this article is Unassessed, please assess it. See the Article Classification for instructions. If you disagree with a rating, you can change it or discuss it at Article Classification. Before assessing this article, be sure to check the existing Archive of assessments made under the previous system (used until July 2006), and feel free to help in migrating the existing comments besides from adding your own evaluation. After assessing this article's quality, please make sure it to add it to the Lists at Article Classification, following the grading scheme detailed there.
This article has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it needs.

	This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Languages, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, and easy-to-use resource about languages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.	language Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.

	Montana Portal This article is within the scope of the Montana WikiProject, a collaborative WikiProject designed to improve articles related to the U.S. state of Montana. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information).
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale.

[edit] I want to display ᓱᖽᐧᖿ

How do I display the characters for ᓱᖽᐧᖿ?

ICE77 -- 81.104.129.226 20:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

It displays them just fine for me. It must be that my browser is set up to read the glyphs in the UCAS UniCode range, as I have fonts in that range. CJLippert (talk) 19:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

Taivo, what did you not understand about the pronunciation indications I added? Hyacinth (talk) 20:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Simple, [ts] does not occur in the word 'snake' and is not the sound a snake makes and [ts:] does not occur in the word 'eagle' and is not the sound an eagle makes. If you want to bring some wording onto this page for discussion, then do so and we will make better wording, but IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet and THAT tells us how it is pronounced, not some animal noise which changes from language to language. Look at other language articles--none of them (or virtually none of them) have "pronunciation aids" to "clarify" the International Phonetic Alphabet. That's the point of the IPA, you don't NEED "clarification" with it. (Taivo (talk) 01:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC))

Is this article intended only for linguists? Is this article restricted to providing information only from the perspective of linguistics? Hyacinth (talk) 20:11, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

It is Wikipedia practice to present all pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The IPA is 100% clear in what it means. Even non-linguistic articles use the IPA for pronunciation (see the article on "Chaps", for example). Even in this case, the symbol [ts] is crystal clear even if one does not specifically know the IPA--a "t" followed by an "s". If you are concerned about "nonlinguists", then are you also going to explain "typologically polysynthetic"? It seems that needs more nonlinguistic explanation than [ts]. (Taivo (talk) 21:59, 30 April 2008 (UTC))