User:Szfski

About Me


My areas of interest include Indo-European studies, Semitic linguistics, Slavic Languages, Pushkin, Historical Chinese Phonology, Literature of the Tang and Song dynasties, sociolinguistics, philosophy of translation, Catalan literature, Esperanto literature, and Medieval Persian literature.

On Wikipedia I mainly work on articles dealing with the literature of the pre-modern (i.e. 632–1918) Islamic world. I also contribute to articles dealing with Near Eastern and Far Eastern linguistic phenomena, including Middle Chinese, Palestinian Arabic, Andalusian Arabic, Persian phonology and the Egyptian language. The Canaanite Shift is largely my creation.

I've made it a habit to monitor language articles which are an object of popular attention such as Latin spelling and pronunciation and Ancient Greek phonology so as to make sure they don't get too deformed.

I've also started expanding the info on dialects of Chinese.

Articles I Have Created
Slavic microlanguages, Adel Karasholi, Raymond C Kelly, Jeanne-Marie Cash

Articles Needing Enlargement
I've deemed the following articles to be in need of enlargement with material from their corresponding Wikipedia articles in other languages.


 * From Catalan: Valencian Socialist Party, Matilde Salvador i Segarra and (most urgently) Ausiàs March


 * From Galician: Rosalía de Castro


 * From Arabic: Fadwa Touqan, Ghassan Kanafani, Abdul Salam Arif, Mubarak Al-Sabah and Ibn Khafaja.


 * From Esperanto: Vilma Sindona Eichholz, Reinhard Haupenthal, Martin Haase and Frederic Pujulà i Vallés.


 * From Russian: Latinisation (USSR), Kazakh alphabet