User talk:M. Dingemanse/Archive16

Past projects[edit]

(N indicates that I started the article, or that I completely rewrote a substub)

Featured articles[edit]

N Nafaanra language (nom)
N Gbe languages (nom)

Decent articles[edit]

N Arsène Roux, one of the finest Berberologists
N Defaka { featured at DYK, May 31, 2005 }
N Terik people { featured at DYK, June 2, 2005 }
N Bono Manso { featured at DYK, June 6, 2005 }
N Qala'un Mosque { featured at DYK, June 14, 2005 }
N Force Dynamics { but needs a lot more work }
N Nobiin language { needs more history, a better structure and sound examples if possible }
N Ideophone
N Meeussen's rule
N Senufo languages
N Okiek language
N Phla-Pherá languages { needs some example sentences from Kluge 2000 to finish it off }
N Logba language { grammar and sound examples are on their way }

Stubs I created[edit]

(some are not really stubs, and some were not strictly created by me but largely written, or essentially rewritten by me)

Languages

Adamorobe Sign Language because Nyst talked about it on CALL 2004 — Anlo language because of its tonal peculiarities — Gen language, one of the Gbe languages — Kimatuumbi language needs expansion — Mangaabe-Mbula language based on Bugenhagen in Goddard&Wierzbicka 2002 — Ngumba language based on fieldwork notes, oops, that's original research... — Supyire language because I'm writing something about its tonal system — Sucite language because it's the neighbour of Supyire — Ligbi language because its an interesting outsider to the other Mande languages (and neighbour of Nafaanra language) — Mamara language also called Minyanka — Gusii language because I came across it in the highly interesting Schladt 1997... — Palaka language another Senufo language — Karaboro languages almost as intriguing as Nafaanra (outsiders also) — Nanerige language the Burkina neighbour of Mamara — Luo language, another one mentioned in Schladt's Körperteilvokabularien — Tugen language — Elgon languages because they're in the Uganda/Kenya borderland in the intriguing Mount Elgon area — Pökoot language which is another Kalenjin language — Temne language because our coverage of Atlantic languages is really meager — well, the same holds for Omotic, hence Anfillo language — Bussa language is an endangered East Cushitic language — we should have an article on Konso language too — Kivunjo language because someone wanted that link to be blue — Kipsigis language well, another Kalenjin stub — Goemai language a West Chadic language for a change — Baga Binari language, the first Guinean language on Wikipedia (it's a shame) — and with a big leap to the other side of the continent, Maasai language, the first Eastern Nilotic language article here — Kalenjin language, in an attempt to resolve the nebulous Nandi/Kalenjin nomenclature — Samburu language, one of the Maa languages and likewise — Ongamo language, which is actually a substub — Yaaku, my first hybrid stub (ethnic group/language) — Camus people, another hybrid — Ibibio language because someone thought it was a Bantu language — Abanyom language because someone asked what the name of the speakers was — Turkana language, the language of the people of the grey bull — Languages of Mali a good old rewrite, one of the first in my Languages of... project — Languages of Uganda another rewrite, quite some content actually — Senari languages because I felt like writing a Senufo-stub again — Bozo languages, because I heard Dvyost talking about them somewhere and because they've received little linguistic attention — Mono language (Congo), based on a phonological sketch from the Proceedings — Ekoti language, on the 'mixed' language of Angoche, Mozambique — Sonjo language, an intriguing Bantu language in Tanzanian Maasai territory — Standard Yoruba speaks for itself — Languages of Zambia, another stub of the Languages of ... project — Animere language, an endangered Ghana Togo Mountain language — Boro language (Ghana), an extinct language reported on in Seidel (1898) — Nyanga language, a Bantu language of DRC which popped up on my watchlist ...

Language (sub)families

Western Nilotic languages, actually to pave the road for Luo language, and likewise — Luo languages — in the same vein, a stub on Southern Nilotic languages because I wanted to get to Tugen language — Kalenjin languages when I saw the Mt. Elgon area while working on the LRA map — Volta-Congo languages and also Southern Bantoid languages because I created redirects for them earlier — Narrow Bantu languages basically to explain why it's not always simply 'Bantu languages' — East Cushitic languages because Konso and Bussa needed context — Bantoid languages because it should be more than a redirect to Bantu — Atlantic-Congo languages, another subgrouping of Niger-Congo — Baga languages, the languages of the Bae Raka, people of the sea-side — Gur languages rewritten from scratch — Maa languages, to create more context for articles on the Maa languages — Luhya languages, the languages of the neighbours of the Terik — Central Sudanic languages, one of the last missing branches of Nilo-Saharan — Chari-Nile languages to explain that the term is now obsolote — Sudanic languages same story — Ijoid languages, one of the last missing Niger-Congo branches — Grusi languages, a subgroup of Central Gur — Ghana Togo Mountain languages actually I was expanding Niger-Congo, but I couldn't skip this one — Kwa languages practically a rewrite from scratch, but spread over several edits spanning quite some time — Edoid languages, another Niger-Congo subgroup — Yoruboid languages, a subgroup of Defoid, and — Edekiri languages, a subgroup of Yoruboid ...

Linguistic topics

Conceptual Semantics is actually rather poor and needs expansion — Mentalist Postulate should be expanded and updated too — Serial verb construction needs expansion and better examples — Downdrift just a stub ...

Ethnic groups

Nafana people — Ewe people because someone said they were one of the Akan peoples or something — Pökoot, a Kalenjin community in Kenya — Dorobo, because it is a much abused term — Turkana people (the people of the grey bull) — Senufo because it was an inappropriate redirect to Senufo languages — Ateker, because Ezeu asked a question about it — Baga people, because it was an inappropriate redirect to Baga language — Kore people, living on Lamu Island and speakers of a variety of Maa ...

Misc

Malcolm Guthrie, to be able to refer to him when talking about Bantu classification — Ida C. Ward because she said very interesting things about tone — Rivers State, Nigeria to create context for Defaka — Nkoroo because there were so many red links in Defaka — Begho, an ancient trading town along the Tain river — Amedzofe (history), because of its role in the oral history of the Gbe peoples — Amedzofe (Ghana), because Amedzofe is more than another name for Ketu — Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae because CICM missionaries tried to standardize Lingala — Bono state to give Bono Manso some context — Costa Brava of all places, because it was on several request lists (I couldn't believe it there was nothing yet) — Ray Jackendoff, because his theory of language is intriguing — expanded Clement Martyn Doke, an interesting African linguist — Sous, from a redirect to some Latin coin to a stub about the most fertile region of Morocco — Utenzi, the first article on Swahili poetry here — Kanga (African garment), another Swahili topic we simply need to cover ...

Articles I expanded considerably[edit]

Sandawe language
Amharic language
Lingala language (in cooperation with Moyogo)
Natural semantic metalanguage
Afar Depression (Environment section)
Linguistic universal (Semantics section, Bibliography)
Niger-Congo languages (Classification history; Linguistic features; more coming)

Articles I expanded a little[edit]

Languages, their speakers, and linguistics

Ewe language — Hadza language — Kirundi language — Kinyarwanda language — N'ko, the Mande writing system — Dogon, where I've tried to eliminate the Sirius exotism as much as possible — Dogon languages — Polyglotta Africana, Koelle's magnificent work — Labial-velar consonant, with sth about labial-velar stops in West-African languages — Tone (linguistics), a bit on notational systems — Areal feature (linguistics) — something about the language of the Hema people who have partly switched to Lendu — Acholi language, but it needs more — Bozo (people) since I was doing research for their 'languages' article — Nzema, to help a new article on the way...

Misc

Lake Kyoga because I made a map for it — Kalenjin to clarify the nebulous nomenclature in linguistics and ethnology ...

Did you know?[edit]

From articles I contributed

...that Diedrich H. Westermann found out that some of the Sudanic languages were related to the Bantu languages but that he did not explicitly state this conclusion out of respect for his teacher Carl Meinhof?
...that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century? { featured on Main Page, June 14, 2005 }
...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?{ featured on Main Page, May 31, 2005 }
...that the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades? { featured on Main Page, June 2, 2005 }
...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade? { featured on Main Page, June 6, 2005 }
...that boys of the Kenyan Terik people nowadays undergo initiation together with Nandi boys, a sign of the gradual assimilation to their close neighbours the Nandi?
...that missionaries of the Belgian Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae did missionary work in China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and in Congo Free State/Belgian Congo?
...that Begho was an ancient trading town on the Tain river in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana?
...that many speakers of Nobiin were forcedly resettled to Kom Ombo (Egypt) and New Halfa (Sudan) due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam?
...that Amedzofe ('origin/home of humanity' in Ewe) is one of the names for Ketu in present-day Benin?
...that Anfillo is an endangered language of Western Ethiopia, spoken only by a few hundred adults above sixty?