User:Kwamikagami
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Top stuff! cjllw05:45, 2005 August 3 (UTC)
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 surname.
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[edit] A few contributions
(Basically things for me to keep an eye on.)
[edit] Language
- Language articles (largely phonetics): Toda, Paicĩ, Juǀʼhoan, ǃXóõ, Nǀuu, ǂHõã, Gǀwi, Dahalo, Damin, Hadza, Sandawe, Wari’, Rotokas, Iwaidja, Kusunda, Hindi-Urdu phonology
- American Sign Language grammar
- Esperanto, Esperanto grammar, Esperanto phonology, Esperanto orthography, Esperanto vocabulary (& etymology), Esperantido
- Language classification: Khoisan languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Austronesian languages, Je-Tupi-Carib, Sino-Tibetan languages, Karasuk languages, Dené-Yeniseian languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Niger-Congo languages, Austroasiatic languages, Tai-Kadai languages, Hmong-Mien languages, Buyeo languages, Trans-New Guinea languages and other families in Ross's Papuan languages classification
- Inclusive and exclusive we
- Phonetics: Place of articulation, Click consonant, Airstream mechanism, Phonation, Prosody, Prosodic unit, Secondary stress
[edit] Writing
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Writing Systems of the World - International Phonetic Alphabet (much of it while at IPA in Unicode) and many of the articles linked from there, tone letter
- Help:IPA pronunciation key and Help:IPA English pronunciation key
- Types of alphabets, List of writing systems
- History of the alphabet, Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Origin of hangul
- Japanese Sign Language syllabary, Korean manual alphabet, etc.
- Stokoe notation, General Chinese
- Origin of Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals
- Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics; Rongorongo & attempts at decipherment, with articles on each tablet; Woleaian script; Pahawh Hmong
[edit] Astronomy
- Moons of Pluto
- Rings of Rhea
- Origins of star names, especially Arabic and Chinese; the info is now divided up into the 88 constellation articles. [then removed to the Talk pages]
- 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
- Actual zodiac dates, for those who like to mess with their astrologer friends
[edit] Other
- Shogi strategy and tactics, Tenjiku shogi, Tai shogi, Ko shogi, Sannin shogi, etc.
- Ritual Decalogue (started)
- Continent
- Usonia
- Segmented sleep
- Gari Ledyard
- Alexander Salmon, Jr
[edit] Useful stuff
- Useful code
- &#x....; = Unicode hexadecimal entry
- .IPA { font-family: Gentium, Doulos SIL !important; } = font override in monobook.css.
- Useful links
- Blank maps
- Help:Pronunciation respelling key
- IP address check
- Glottopedia
- Noticeboard
- Vandalism templates
- Alias
- Archive of admin nomination
- Fun
[edit] To do
- Move star etymologies to individual articles. Now in talk pages of constellations.
- Photos SL alphabets.
- Pitch accent per Hyman.
- Akan names (on C:)
[edit] Residence
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