User:A R King

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Contents 1 About A R King 2 My mission 3 Languages I know 4 My contributions to Wikipedia 4.1 Articles 4.2 Thematic areas 4.3 Wikipedia issues 5 Awards

[edit] About A R King

My name is Alan R. King. I am a linguist, language teacher and translator. At present I work as a freelance translator. I studied linguistics formally in the United States and England.

Most of my linguistic work focuses in a variety of ways on languages and particularly on the study, development and support of minority or endangered languages in many parts of the world.

I am a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language and a Founding Member of Iniciativa para la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat - Te Miki Tay Tupal.

I have written several books, articles, etc., principally on the Basque and Nawat (Pipil) languages.

I live in the Basque Country, a stateless nation in Europe. Other countries where I have lived for a year or longer are Catalonia, El Salvador, England (where I was born), the USA and Wales.

[edit] My mission

I do all I can to promote the freedom, development and right to recovery of countries, peoples and languages suffering from discrimination, intolerance, injustice, foreign imposition and threats to their existence, and, not having a state of their own, whose legitimate collective rights are denied by another country and its government to whose rule they are forced to submit. As a writer, my most effective means of doing this is by informing the world about them, and this will be my mission in Wikipedia, where I plan to concentrate on presenting quality information on the structures of a variety of such languages.

[edit] Languages I know

I have studied many languages in a theoretical context. I also have a practical command of a few of them, at varying levels of proficiency, including those shown on the right, and also...

Naja niweli nitaketza wan nitawawasua tik Nawat ipal Kushkatan. (Nawat, language of the Pipils of El Salvador in Central America)

[edit] My contributions to Wikipedia

[edit] Articles

New articles

Pipil grammar (1 October 2006) Pipil language (typological overview) (1 October 2006) Miskito grammar (29 October 2006) Miskito language (typological overview) (30 October 2006)

Edited articles

Pipil language (1 October 2006)

[edit] Thematic areas

[edit] Wikipedia issues

[edit] Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		Well deserved for your hard work on Basque related issues (among many others) and specially your cleanup of the Basque people article. Sugaar 23:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)