User talk:WilliamThweatt/Archive 4

Chittagong
Hi William! Can you please create an article on Chittagong each in Khmer, Lao and Koine Greek languages? Thanks -- Zayeem (talk)  16:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * (random user commenting) Why would you want a translation of the article about Chittagong in Koine Greek? It's a dead language which was spoken between 300 BC and 300 AD. Also, there's no Koine Wikipedia (in fact, there's no Ancient Greek Wikipedia). πr2 (t • c) 19:48, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, I saw the language in the userpage that's why asked for it! Sorry about that! -- Zayeem (talk)  10:16, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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vs 'zero'
You mentioned that other sources declare it as being phonemically, could you provide a citation? I'm having no luck verifying your claim (in Huffman or Jenner), and it's worth noting that spelling and pronunciation aren't forcibly correlated. The vowel in clip provided on this website sounds rather flat more than like the diphthong in the English word 'tone'. —  Io Katai  ᵀᵃˡᵏ  22:58, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hmong clustering
Thanks for your help with that language article. – SJ  +  14:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Tampuan
Is the ⟨a⟩ in Tampuon really pronounced [u]? Might that just be an English pronunciation spelling? — kwami (talk) 07:23, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, good catch...well actually it's the Khmer pronunciation spelling. A small oversight on my part transcribing the wrong word. For the Tampuan pronunciation, the unstressed vowel in the pre-syllable would probably be better rendered as /ə/. I'll go change that now.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 08:33, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Tasks
Hey, here's a gnomish task for you, if you're interested:
 * 1) update all Mon-Khmer speaker populations per Ethn. 17
 * 2) cite Ethn's sources directly if you have access
 * 3) cite better or more up-to-date sources if you know of some

I'm gradually doing all lang articles, but won't get past level 1. I won't have the time for 2, and in most cases don't have the knowledge for 3. — kwami (talk) 23:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks. One petty point, though:  In this edit you imply that the number of speakers is from the 2009 census, when it's from Bradley 2007.  I don't know what Bradley based his figures on, but if it's from several years earlier, there may be a significant difference from 2009 due to population growth or language shift, as well as from different methods of estimating.  Thus dividing the number of speakers by the number of people does not provide the percentage of people who speak the language, as the article now implies. — kwami (talk) 01:05, 13 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah I can see that. I didn't mean to make that implication. Guess I shouldn't edit after a long day of work. Just trying to point out the disparity between the number of people and the number of speakers. I'll just leave the infobox to speak for itself.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 08:53, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

FYI, I've added support for "linglist" in the ref field. Only useful for a few extinct languages, but Ethn. is gradually shifting support of extinct languages over to Linglist. — kwami (talk) 00:42, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Hindi
The E17 figures for Manak Hindi are not actually for Manak Hindi, but rather based on speaker identification. The Indian census makes that clear, but the nuances are lost in Ethn. — kwami (talk) 22:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)


 * hhhmmm, I'm not familiar enough with the Hindi situation to disagree (I should have read the 2nd paragraph in the lede, doh!). However, one would think that for a nation as large and developed (2nd most populous, 10 largest economy) there would be a reliable source with info more recent than a 22 years ago. For a 1991 number of 180 million and a current population growth rate of 1.51%, the number of Hindi speakers in India alone is bound to be much, much higher than the number we have now. I'll add looking for source to my already large (and growing) list of things to do.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 22:46, 12 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is a rather remarkable problem, and there are a lot of us who would appreciate it if you're able to find anything.
 * Besides the general rate of population growth, there may be language shift, so the number could be growing quite quickly indeed.
 * The census has a category for "Hindi" in the broad sense, and then breaks it down into Awadhi, Hindi, Chhattisgarhi, etc. The problem is that the numbers reflect speaker identification, so that for example the majority of Awadhi speakers reported their language as "Hindi" rather than as "Awadhi".  The result is that only the total for all languages called "Hindi" has any validity, but this "Hindi" is a social construct that doesn't have any linguistic validity.  — kwami (talk) 01:00, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Tampuan language
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:03, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hmong people
Thanks for reverting that copyvio on Hmong people, I was looking into it too. I've left a friendly notice on the new user's talk page to point them towards our copyright policies. Novusuna talk 08:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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