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Babel user information

de-N	Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

sxu-N	This user has a native understanding of Upper Saxon.

eo-4	Ĉi tiu uzanto parolas kun preskaŭ denaska scio de Esperanto.

en-4	This user has near native speaker knowledge of English.

zh-3	这位用户的中文达到高级水平。

th-2	ผู้ใช้คนนี้มีความรู้ระดับกลางเกี่ยวกับภาษาไทย

nl-2	Deze gebruiker heeft basiskennis van het Nederlands.

tlh-2	This user has intermediate knowledge of Klingon.

ru-2	Этот участник владеет русским языком на среднем уровне.

kac-2	This user has intermediate knowledge of Kachin.

my-2	ဤအသုံးပြုသူသည် မြန်မာဘာသာ အတွက် အလယ်အလတ်ဗဟုသုတ ရှိသည်။

la-1	Hic usor simplici lingua Latina conferre potest.

es-1	Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español.

fr-1	Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.

lzh-1

此士少解文言。

ddo-1	This user has basic knowledge of Dido.

tpi-1	Dispela yusa i save liklik tasol long Tok Pisin.

...

This user would like to know all existing languages.

iu...

This user wishes to speak Inuktitut.

Hrkt-3
あ

This user has an advanced understanding of the Katakana or Hiragana.

ipa
ə

This user has a native-like understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Userboxes

Cyrl-3
Д

This user has an advanced understanding of the Cyrillic script.

ENFP

This user's MBTI type is ENFP.

This user scored 1190.82 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 76405726).

This user is a participant in WikiProject Languages.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Writing systems.

Hello, my name is André and I'm 35 years old and this page is a little outdated. I come from Leipzig where I studied Linguistics and Sinology at the local university. I'm doing my PhD at the University of Zurich about the languages of Burma. My main interests in linguistics include phonetics, phonology and typology, as well as historical linguistics, writing systems, constructed languages (esp. Esperanto and Klingon) and lexicography. I also like movies, science (especially astronomy) and to an extent geography. I collect dictionaries — they sum up to over 700 books in way over 250 different languages. See a map of my dictionary collection here!

For more information about my life, you can read my blog here: http://n-true.livejournal.com/ (but this is now discontinued)

P.S.: I collect the word for the number 47 ("forty-seven") in as many languages as possible. You can see my collection (612 languages so far) here. I do the same with the word for water, for which I have 2,425 languages now (the list is not online, though). In case you know any further translation or if you can correct anything, please leave me a message on my talk page here or as a comment in my LiveJournal. Thank you!

Articles I created

User:N-true
List of grammatical cases (although wikified by Timwi)
Tsez language
Bezhta language
Babel boxes for Upper Saxon (sxu)
Babel boxes for Tsez (ddo-1 & ddo-4)
NGC 47
Bahing language (although a big part was taken from Bahing)
Hinukh language
Cohong
Omi language
Intrative case
Jürgen Vogel
List of languages by time of extinction
Alexander Kibrik

Articles to which I contributed a bigger part

List of languages by name (major clean-up)
List of linguists (major clean-up)
Standard Alphabet by Lepsius (everything but the introduction)
Khinalug language (almost everything)

Pictures uploaded by me

Marc Okrand (see article on Marc Okrand)

Plans for the future

write Toolbox (linguistics) and Shoebox (linguistics)
write Frustrative mood
rewrite Upper Saxon German
clean-up the consonant pages such as voiced velar implosive and add examples
expand Avar language
expand Baure language
expand Belhare language
expand Chintang language
expand Cohong
expand George van Driem (translate from Dutch article!)
expand Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza
expand Khwarshi language
expand Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (translate from German article!)
expand Messier 47
expand Pirahã language
expand Puma language
expand World Atlas of Language Structures
expand Alexander Kibrik
create a few Requested Articles about Linguistics
correct all instances of "Devnagari" to Devanagari
add IPA to all Thai name articles
improve and expand Tsez language

Travels and life

Lived in:

Spent days to weeks in:

Spent hours in:

Actively planning to go to:

Want to (and will) go to, but have no certain plans just yet:
	Idea and layout stolen from Ëzhiki who stole it from Sebastiankessel who stole it from Guettarda who stole it from White Cat.

Geek Code

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 X+ R- !tv> b++>+++ DI D- G e+++>++++ h>h- r++ y+
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My subpages

additional userboxes (on hold)
my dictionaries (growing)
"Prison" in many languages (obsolete)
List of computer related terms in Klingon (in progress)
Wiki page of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (redirected)
Middle Egyptian vocabulary from Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar" (in progress)
Maps (just testing)
Imperativ of -ern / -eln verbs in German (growing)
Gender of the German word "Prospekt" (growing)
Map of my dictionary collection (up to date!)
Map of all Esperanto events in 2012 (up to date)

Wikipedians I know or have met in real-life

Blahma — a Czech esperantist whom I met on several ISos.
Brangseng0 — a linguist from Japan, working on languages of Northern Burma.
Chuck SMITH — an American esperantist, who's omnipresent on every IS. ;)
Cmglee — a Chinese friend of Timwi's, whom I met in Cambridge.
Conny — he had a talk on Wikipedia at the Leipzig Bookfair 2008.
Daniel Krauße — a fellow linguist I met on a conference in Leiden.
Franczeska — a japanophile Wikipedian from Leipzig.
Goulo — another American esperantist whom I met during an IS.
Haspelmath — a linguist who works in the same institute as I do.
Herr-Schlauschlau — a fellow student of linguistics from my university.
IanMaddieson — a famous linguist I met during a conference.
Janwo — a linguist who worked in the same institute as I still do.
Junesun — an esperantist who knows quite many languages.
Kevinbaet — a linguistics colleague in Zurich.
Klaus Schmidt — a fellow student of linguistics.
Klingon83 — someone from my university.
Lieven — a Klingon teacher.
LogosHelen — a linguist, esperantist, Dr. Who fan and friend of mine.
Lupíro — an Esperantist I know.
Marcoscramer — a German esperantist, also known from several ISos.
Michael%Sappir — a fellow linguistics student from my university.
Newydd — a colleague who shared office with me at the MPI.
Nick Kalivoda — an Esperantist from Athens, Georgia, whom I met on an IS.
Ohala — a famous US phonetician.
Paul Ebermann — another German esperantist from an IS.
Piraha1 — the linguist who wrote so much on the Pirahã language.
pne — a language geek whom I got to know through LiveJournal as well.
Promb — a linguistics student from Münster.
Ralesk — I know him through LiveJournal and met im in Budapest, once.
Rgyalrongskad — a French linguist working on Sino-Tibetan languages mostly.
Robert Weemeyer — one of the "greatest" Esperantist in the world. ;)
Showmaster — a guy from my former high school.
Sinatra — a (euro)linguist from Germany.
Sonjaaa — Canadian esperantist and inventor of Toki Pona.
Spottedowl — a friend of Timwi, also met him in Cambridge.
Stefan Knauf — a German esperantist.
Stephan Schneider — German esperantist and folksprakist (or however you call it).
Sven Siegmund — khoisanist and one of my office-mates from the MPI.
Thogo — studied linguistics at the University of Leipzig with me.
Timur Maisak — a Russian linguist.
Timwi — a good friend, who lives in Cambridge now.
Trwier — a linguist colleague from the MPI.
Uwe Gille — a German Wikipedian and veterinary anatomist.
Verdlanco — a Norwegian esperantist whom I first met during the IJK in Lesjöfors, Sweden.
Zrajm — a fellow Klingonist from Sweden.
Zwenngraw — a phonetician and colleague from the MPI.

People with Wikipedia articles that I know or have met in real-life (the people, not the articles)

Note: The flags merely show the flag of the country by the time of these people's birth, not their political affiliation! The little asterisk stands for mutual acquaintance.