User:Kwamikagami

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The IPA

The name Kwami is an Ashanti name for a man born on a Saturday. 鏡 Kagami is a Japanese pun on my surname.

My first edit was on 2004 August 12.

[edit] Scrapbook

[edit] Language

Origins of hangul

• Language articles (largely phonetics): Toda, Paicĩ, Juǀʼhoan, ǃXóõ, Nǀuu, ǂHõã, Gǀwi, Dahalo, Damin, Hadza, Sandawe, Wari’, Rotokas, Iwaidja, Kusunda, Hindi-Urdu phonology, Naro, Chechen, (proto-)Chimakuan, Montana Salish, Tsou, Tiwi, Iaai, Jalapa Mazatec, Ndrumbea, Defaka, Tẹẹ, Avatime, Amis, Angami, Dida, Sui, Xavante (revised), Mlabri, Gorgotoqui
• American Sign Language grammar, Korean grammar
• Esperanto, Esperanto grammar, Esperanto phonology, Esperanto orthography, Esperanto vocabulary (& etymology), Esperantido, Na’vi
• 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
• Clusivity, Attributive verb, Pluractionality, Austronesian alignment, Nominative-absolutive language
• 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, Help:IPA for English, and Help:IPA for Korean
• Types of alphabets, List of writing systems
• History of the alphabet, Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Origin of hangul
• Japanese manual syllabary, Korean manual alphabet, Irish manual alphabet
• Stokoe notation, General Chinese, Cyrillic digraphs
• Origin of Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals
• Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics; Rongorongo & attempts at decipherment, with articles on each tablet; Woleaian script; Pahawh Hmong; Afaka script

[edit] Astronomy

• Moons of Pluto, Moons of Haumea
• Rings of Rhea
• Origins of star names, especially Arabic and Chinese; the info is now divided up on the Talk pages of 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
• Actual zodiac dates, for those who like to mess with their astrologer friends
• Controversy over the discovery of Haumea (while at Haumea)

[edit] Other

• Shogi strategy and tactics (while at Shogi), Tenjiku shogi, Tai shogi, Ko shogi, Sannin shogi, etc.
• Ritual Decalogue (started)
• Continent
• Usonia (taken to wiktionary:Usonian and wiktionary:Citations:Usonian)
• Segmented sleep
• Gari Ledyard
• Alexander Salmon, Jr
• King Nga‘ara (stub; expansion on to-do list)
• eye putty

[edit] Useful stuff

Useful code

• &#x....; = Unicode hexadecimal entry
• .IPA { font-family: Gentium, Doulos SIL !important; } = font override in monobook.css.
• {{FixBunching|beg/end}} when templates sit side-by-side
• EXCEL-wiki macro
• {{SOWL}} (SOWL reference)
• {{OED|word}} (OED references)
• AWB regex: \{\{IPA\|([^\}]*)\'([^\}]*)\}\} → $1ˈ$2
  not contains: (\|.){3,}

Useful links

• probs w Google search counts
• Blank maps
• large blank world map
• Help:Pronunciation respelling key
• IP address check
• Glottopedia
• Noticeboard
• Vandalism templates
• {{fix}}

Alias

• 2006
• Commons
• Wiktionary

Archive of admin nomination

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kwamikagami

Fun

• Wikipedia:Unusual articles

[edit] To do

• pausa
• redo active-stative alignment from more universal POV
• redo Nambikwara phonology
• affect (linguistics)
• Move star etymologies to individual articles. Now in talk pages of constellations.
• Photos SL alphabets.
• Pitch accent per Hyman.
• evidence for Austric
• expand Nga'ara
• get shogi to GA or FA
• get history of hangul to GA or FA
• Ingush language
• fix endo/exo-labial mixup high front & maybe central Vs
• Dida
• Swahili N classes
• clean up after Wikipedia:School and university projects/LING1100-WritingSystems/Completed assignments (dbl chekc Cham, Malayalam, Old Persian, Cypriot, Khitan, Cherokee, Brahmi, Javanese, Coptic, Elamite, Manchu, Sogdian)
• Orin Gensler and Afrasiatic influence on Insular Celtic
• clean up & ref Buyeo / Japanese-Koguryoic
• delete {{IPAEng}} after it's fallen further out of use
• reorder {{there}} and add 3nd param.
• finish WP:IPA for Vietnamese
• Andamanese per Addi2009

[edit] Gallery

Lepcha script	Putative rongorongo lineage	Rongorongo ligatures	Caucasic languages
The Extended IPA	Pine Ridge (Lakota) flag	Reverse boustrophedon	Trans-New Guinea language families

[edit] Residence