User:Ish ishwar

i've added stuff to wikipedia on languages (mostly N/S American), linguistics, and shogi (including theory).

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 * “ (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


 * http://www.thehungersite.com

a peace treaty by Thích Nhất Hạnh:


 * 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.proel.org/index.php?pagina=mundo/amerindia (PROEL: lenguas amerindias)


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

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

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

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