User:Krankman

Hello.
I am a German from Westfalia, with Silesian and Pomeranian roots. After finishing my studies of Indology, Linguistics und Journalism in the beautiful town of Göttingen, I came to Cologne in 2002 to learn Tamil. I love living in the big-city atmosphere of provincial Cologne with its friendly people and its Kölsch, the Cologne Carnival and Kölsch. I am a freelance proofreader and translator, and I teach Sinhala at the University of Cologne. My main area of interest is the South Indian region, particularly Sri Lanka, where I have spent many months in the past 20 years. I'm especially fond of Sinhala music, particularly by The Gypsies.

My Contributions
Articles that I have significantly contributed to: (The articles marked with an asterisk were started by me.)
 * Sinhala words of Tamil origin
 * List of Sinhala words of Dutch origin*
 * Sinhala language
 * List of Sinhala words of Portuguese origin*
 * List of loan words in Sri Lankan Tamil
 * Ninon Hesse*
 * Tissamaharama*
 * Tangalle*
 * Backpack Picnic*
 * François Lelord*

To do (as of 2008...)

 * Wilhelm Geiger
 * Munidasa Kumaratunga
 * History of the Sinhalese Language
 * Ambalangoda
 * improve Sinhala (I'd like to do that on the basis of the Italian article; the construction site is here)
 * improve Elu significantly
 * improve Martin Wickramasinghe
 * improve Ediriweera Sarachchandra
 * improve Gunadasa Amarasekara

My Pictures
Gallery with the photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by me

Tools etc.

 * http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/larticles/
 * http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate (cool edit counter)
 * User:Nickj/Can_We_Link_It
 * HUG
 * User:Scriberius/Babelmania



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