User:Kwamikagami

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'Kwami' is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia next year

"Kwami Kagami" in the Afaka script

presented in recognition of your comprehensive and always balanced contributions to articles on writing systems and languages.
Top stuff! cjllw05:45, 2005 August 3 (UTC)

The name "Kwami" is a Ashanti name for a man born on a Saturday, which I was. "Kagami" is a Japanese joke on my name.

[edit] A few contributions

(Created, substantially revised, or which ended edit wars)

Language

• International Phonetic Alphabet (much of it while at IPA in Unicode) and many of the articles linked from there
• Place of articulation
• Click consonant
• Airstream mechanism
• Phonation
• Prosody
• Language articles (largely phonetics): Toda, Paicĩ, Ju/’hoan, !Xóõ, ‡Hõã, G/wi, Dahalo, Damin, Hadza, Sandawe, Wari’, Rotokas, Iwaidja
• List of the most spoken native languages
• Esperanto, Esperanto grammar, Esperanto phonology, Esperanto orthography, Esperanto vocabulary, Esperantido
• Language classification: Classification of Khoisan, Australian Aboriginal languages, Austronesian languages, Je-Tupi-Carib, Sino-Tibetan languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Niger-Congo languages, Austroasiatic languages, Tai-Kadai languages, Hmong-Mien languages, Trans-New Guinea languages and other families in Ross's Papuan languages classification
• Inclusive and exclusive we

Writing

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  Writing Systems of the World
• List of writing systems
• Types of alphabets
• History of the alphabet
• Middle Bronze Age alphabets
• The origins of Hangul
• Japanese Sign Language syllabary, Korean manual alphabet, etc.
• Stokoe notation
• Rongorongo
• General Chinese
• Origin of Roman numerals
• Brahmi numerals

Astronomy

• Origins of star names, especially Arabic and Chinese; the info is now divided up into the 88 constellation articles.
• Pronunciation of Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, Uranus's moons, Neptune's moons
• Pronunciation of asteroid names, Trojan names, Centaurs and Kujper Belt Object names
• Tropical zodiac dates, for those who like to mess with their astrologer friends
• Pluto's natural satellites

Other

• Shogi strategy and tactics, Tenjiku shogi, Tai shogi, Ko shogi, Sannin shogi, etc.
• Ritual Decalogue (started)
• Continent
• Usonia
• Segmented sleep

[edit] Useful stuff

Useful code

• &#x....; = Unicode hexadecimal entry
• span.IPA { font-family: Gentium, Doulos SIL !important; } = font override in monobook.css.

Useful links

• Blank political world map

Alias

• User talk:66.27.205.12

Archive of admin nomination

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kwamikagami