User:N-true

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Hello, my name is André and I'm 35 years old and this page is a little outdated.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

1. User:N-true
2. List of grammatical cases (although wikified by Timwi)
3. Tsez language
4. Bezhta language
5. Babel boxes for Upper Saxon (sxu)
6. Babel boxes for Tsez (ddo-1 & ddo-4)
7. NGC 47
8. Bahing language (although a big part was taken from Bahing)
9. Hinukh language
10. Cohong
11. Omi language
12. Intrative case
13. Jürgen Vogel
14. List of languages by time of extinction
15. 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

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Want to (and will) go to, but have no certain plans just yet:
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Geek Code

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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

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

• Alexandra Aikhenvald, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Artemis Alexiadou, linguist (File:Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg)
• Anthony Aristar, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Mark Aronoff, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Peter Baláž, esperantist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Hugo Egon Balder, actor (Template:Flagicon)
• Russ Ballard, musician (Template:Flagicon)
• Ben Becker, actor (Template:Flagicon)
• Lea-Marie Becker aka LEA, singer (Template:Flagicon)
• Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis (Template:Flagicon)
• Eckhard Bick, linguist and esperantist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Balthasar Bickel, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Detlev Blanke†, esperantist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Paul Boersma, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Christophe Boesch†, primatologist (Template:Flagicon)
• David Bradley, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Lyle Campbell, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Bernard Comrie, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Bruce Darnell, model (Template:Flagicon)
• Gérard Diffloth, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• George van Driem, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Matthew Dryer, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Mamdouh Eldamaty, egyptologist (Template:Flagicon)
• Bret Easton Ellis, author (Template:Flagicon)
• Nicholas Evans, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Daniel Everett, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, egyptologist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Herbert W. Franke†, sci-fi author (Template:Flagicon)
• Michael Giacchino, composer (Template:Flagicon)
• Cliff Goddard, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Russell Gray, evolutionary biologist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Peter Grünberg†, physicist (Template:Flagicon)
• Gregor Gysi, politician (Template:Flagicon)
• Claude Hagège, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Martin Haspelmath, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Monica Heller, linguistic anthropologist (Template:Flagicon)
• Kim J. Henriksen, singer (Template:Flagicon)*
• Jean-Jacques Hublin, anthropologist (Template:Flagicon)
• Larry Hyman, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Guillaume Jacques, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Kristjan Järvi, conductor (Template:Flagicon)
• Jimmy Kelly, singer (Template:Flagicon)
• Burkhard Jung, politician (Template:Flagicon)
• Martin Klebba, actor and stuntman (Template:Flagicon)
• Michael Kretschmer, politician (Template:Flagicon)
• Manfred Krifka, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Sebastian Krumbiegel, singer (Template:Flagicon)
• Tobias Künzel, singer (Template:Flagicon)
• Jean-Marc Leclercq, singer (Template:Flagicon)
• Benny Lewis, polyglot and author (Template:Flagicon)*
• Ian Maddieson, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Susanne Maria Michaelis, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Oliver Masucci, actor (Template:Flagicon)
• Marianne Mithun, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Michael Mittermeier, comedian (Template:Flagicon)
• Ulrike Mosel, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Carol Myers-Scotton, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Andris Nelsons, conductor (Template:Flagicon)
• Johanna Nichols, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• John Ohala†, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Marc Okrand, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Svante Pääbo, geneticist (Template:Flagicon)
• Leena Peisa, musician (Template:Flagicon)
• Martin Petzold†, tenor (Template:Flagicon)
• Don Rosa, comic illustrator (Template:Flagicon)
• Malcolm Ross, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Bernd Ruf, conductor (Template:Flagicon)
• Laurent Sagart, sinologist (Template:Flagicon)
• Alicja Sakaguchi, interlinguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• David Scott aka The Kiffness, musician (Template:Flagicon)
• Bastian Sick, language purist (Template:Flagicon)
• Paul Sidwell, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Anna Siewierska†, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Richard Simcott, polyglot (Template:Flagicon)*
• Per K. Sørensen, tibetologist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Thant Myint-U, historian (Template:Flagicon)
• Michael Tomasello, psychologist (Template:Flagicon)
• Krisztina Tóth, table tennis player (Template:Flagicon)*
• Kevin Tuite, linguist (Template:Flagicon)
• Edward Vajda, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Jürgen Vogel, actor (Template:Flagicon)
• Bertil Wennergren, esperantist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Søren Wichmann, linguist (Template:Flagicon)*
• Yanjaa Wintersoul, memory athlete (Template:Flagicon)*

External links

• My Usage Stats + Edit Count

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N-true is awarded this Barnstar for his excellent work on the Tsez language article. —Khoikhoi 21:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)