User:Ish ishwar
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[edit] bright moments!
ε-mail: ish_ishwar (æt) yahoo . com . sg
i'm interested in language, linguistics, food, culture, music (esp. jazz), & kindness (among others).
i'm a member of SSILA (The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas).
– peace
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[edit] links
a peace treaty by Thích Nhất Hạnh:
particularly useful for American languages, especially with respect to synonymy:
- http://www.ethnologue.com/site_search.asp#se (Ethnologue search page)
- http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/sa_lg_tbl.html (AILLI: South American families)
- http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/ma_lg_tbl.html (AILLI: Mesomerican families)
- http://www.proel.org/mundo/amerindia.htm (PROEL: lenguas amerindias)
[edit] selected Wikipedia pages on languages
- Amharic language
- Carrier language
- Classical Nahuatl grammar
- Irish phonology
- Laal language
- Mayan languages
- Miskito grammar
- Miskito language (typological overview)
- Nafaanra language
- Oromo language
- Pipil grammar
- Pipil language (typological overview)
- Tanacross language
- Tigrinya grammar
- Tigrinya language
- Tigrinya verbs
- Tlingit language
- Tlingit noun
[edit] interested in linguistic sounds?
If you are interested in phonetics or phonology, but dont know where to start, then have a look at these textbooks recommended by linguists, phoneticians, and teachers: User:ish ishwar/phonotextbooks
[edit] IPA
the IPA, for better or worse:
| p b | t d | ʈ ɖ | c ɟ | k ɡ | q ɢ | ʡ | ʔ | |||||
| m | ɱ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||
| ʙ | r | ʀ | * | |||||||||
| * | * | ɾ | ɽ | * | ||||||||
| ɺ | * | |||||||||||
| ɸ β | f v | θ ð | s z | ʃ ʒ | ɕ ʑ | ʂ ʐ | ç ʝ | x ɣ | χ ʁ | ħ ʕ | ʜ ʢ | h ɦ |
| ɬ ɮ | * | * | * | |||||||||
| β̞ | ʋ | ɹ | ɻ | j | ɰ | (ʁ) | (ʕ) | (ʢ) | ||||
| l | ɭ | ʎ | ʟ | |||||||||
[edit] what am i doing
- make information about American languages more comprehensive, more accurate, & more up-to-date
- language family pages
- individual language pages
- more about Athabaskan & Salishan
- web links
- bibliographies
- maps
- random linguistics improvement
[edit] contributions
below are some of my contributions (that is, what is useful or of higher quality or simply what interests me). note that not all of these articles are complete or even necessarily good (they need work)!
- for my maps, other images, & sound files use this link: commons:User:Ishwar.
![spectrogram [minato]](../../../../images/shared/thumb/3/3b/Spectrogram_-minato-.png/95px-Spectrogram_-minato-.png)
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[edit] a few things (about me)
[edit] 3 voices
[edit] 2 quotes
- “qaʔyáx̣ct či xʷanítəm. qáyəx̣. cút kʷə ʔáwə c qʷaʔnítəŋ ʔaʔ či sč̓áʔi. č̓aʔyáʔnəq ʔaʔ tiʔə sčtə́ŋxʷən.” — c̓acmacút (aka Edward Sampson, Sr.); translation of Klallam: The whiteman is lying to us. He's lying. They said that they weren't talking about taking. They are taking away this land.
- “The only person I have left to talk to is a linguist and talking to a linguist is no fun.” — Amerindian woman’s comment to Joshua Fishman
[edit] 2 saxophonists
[edit] 1 Afghan-style recipe
a sauce/marinade:
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[edit] 1 nice person
[edit] 1 letter
[edit] teas to remember
- Pouchong (a.k.a. 包種茶, Baozhong)
- Tieguanyin (a.k.a. 鐵觀音, 铁观音, Tiě Guān Yīn, Iron Guanyin, Ti Kuan Yin, "Iron Goddess of Mercy")
