User:Ish ishwar

awarded by Svest to Ii for his expertise in Linguistics and her/his contributions. 15/10/2005

Awarded to Ish ishwar for contributions in the area of linguistics and native American studies. --Aaron Walden 13:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[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

[edit] links

• http://www.thehungersite.com

• site I was/am working on:   http://apache-texts.co.nr (started moving part of this to wikisource:Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache)

a peace treaty by Thích Nhất Hạn:

• User:ish ishwar/Peace Treaty

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:

[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
  • categorize languages with families & subfamilies
  • family relation proposals
  • web links
  • bibliographies
  • historical classification
  • sound inventories
  • maps
• random linguistics improvement
• Vietnamese phonology
• Japanese phonology

(when i first encountered wikipedia, i saw that there was nothing on many things that i am interested in (such as the Klallam language). i thought it beneficial to make a small contribution (esp. since Klallam & related languages offer significant challenges to linguistic analysis). in many ways, my contributions are simply notes to myself that i display online. i know very little about South American languages. if i start to give them a merger representation here, then perhaps i learn a little myself. if others want to come with me (lead me?) on my journey into this unknown, you are very welcome. you can offer me suggestions, too. peace)

[edit] edits

[edit] sound inventories (project)

so far, 36 languages represented from the following language families & isolates (one is a proto-language):
Afro-Asiatic, Alsean, Austronesian, Austro-Asiatic, Caddoan, Coahuilteco, Kiowa-Tanoan, Muskogean, Na-Dene, Palaihnihan, Salishan, Tibeto-Burman, Utian, Wakashan, Timucua, Wintuan, Yuman-Cochimí, Zuni

*needs vowel chart or other work

(next: Hupa.   Achumawi, Cayuga, Central Alaskan Yup’ik, Central Siberian Yup’ik Eskimo, Chemakum, Chimariko, Chitimacha, Coeur d'Alene, Coos, Dakota, Diegueño, Esselen, Haida, Hanis, Ineseño, Kalapuyan, Kalispel, Karuk, Kathlamet, Keres, Kham, Kiliwa, Kiribatese, Kisar, Kitanemuk, Klamath, Kootenai, Kyuquot, Lakhota, Larike, Luiseño, proto-Maiduan, Maricopa, Mohave, Molala, Natchez, Nez Perce, Nisgha, Northern Paiute, Paipai, Ponapean, Sahaptin, proto-Salishan, Quileute, Rotokas, Salinan, Shasta, Siuslaw, Snohomish, Spiti, Squamish, Takelma, Tillamook, Tipai, Tonkawa, Tunica, Tuvan, Twana, Tzutujil, Ulwa, Usarufa, Walapai, Wappo, Washo, West Tarangan, Wishram, Wintu, Wiyot, Yana, Yavapai, Yuchi, Yuki, proto-Yuman, Yurok)

[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.

indigenous languages north of Mexico Tlingit spectrogram [minato] Place of articulation Apacheans 18th cent Apacheans today

[edit] a few things (about me)

[edit] 3 voices

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• M.S. Subbulakshmi
• Dinah Washington

[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

• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• Booker Ervin

[edit] 1 Afghan-style recipe

a sauce/marinade:

[edit] 1 nice person

• Thích Nhất Hạnh

[edit] 1 letter

• 4th letter from Ranier Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus (1903)

[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")

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