User:Julia

Babel user information
en-N This user has a native understanding of English. de-3 Diese Benutzerin beherrscht Deutsch auf hohem Niveau. cmn-2 This user has intermediate knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. ru-1 Эта участница владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. ga-1 Tá buneolas ag an úsáideoir seo maidir le Gaeilge. sco-1 This uiser can contreebute wi ae laich level o Scots. gsw-1 Dää Benutzer cha e bitzeli Alemannisch. A Latn This user's native script is the Latin alphabet. Я Cyrl-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet. Ω Grek-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Greek alphabet. 简 Hans-1 This user has a basic understanding of Simplified Chinese. /ʑ/ IPA-3 This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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I used to be User:Gormflaith

on prescriptivism patrol

Hello. I'm Julia.

Born: 1999, Rhode Island

Residence: Ohio

Occupation: B.A. student, studying linguistics, German and math

Years active: 2017-present

Currently working on:

• Adding Alemannic and Scots entries
• Organizing Alemannic, Bavarian, Cimbrian, and Mòcheno lemmas.
  • Categorizing, alternative forms
• Harvesting words from below sources
• Categorizing other less documented languages
• Adding pictures
• Organizing descendants
• Adding Middle English entries from the Canterbury Tales

Subpages

Useful stuff

• user:Julia/Alemannic bones
• user:Julia/Scots bones
• user:Julia/Descendants bones
• user:Julia/Desctrees
• user:Julia/Module:languages
• user:Julia/Words to add

Fun stuff

• user:Julia/Doublets
• user:Julia/Favorite words
• user:Julia/FWOTD
• user:Julia/My ecolect

Sources to harvest words from

Germanic

• ang, da, fo, fy, gmq-oda, gmq-osw, gmq-pro, goh, got, is, no, non, sv: Nordic Names
• cim: Patuzzi, Umberto, editor (2013), Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
• en: Dresser, Eric (2008) Rowing Glossary, row2k media.
• en: Usenet
• enm: Canterbury Tales
• gsw: Abegg, Emil (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page #.
• sco: Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
• sco: Scots Thesaurus
• sco: DSL

Uralic

• chm, mrj: Neahttadigisánit
• fkv, kpv, mdf, myv, se, sjd, sje, sjt, sma, smn, sms: Giellatekno
• fkv, olo: Nettidigisanat
• izh, liv, vot, vro: Netidigisõnad
• krl: Karjalen Kielen Sanakirja
• smi: Nordic Names
• udm: Neahttadigisánit
• yrk: Neahttadigisánit

Other

• aqc: Dictionary of Archi
• aus-pam: State Library of Queensland
• crk: itwêwina
• kl: Nordic Names
• map, bnt: Russell Gray's Research Lab
• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• sem-ara: Sureth

Misc.

• HathiTrust Digital Library for any language or dialect (most resources are old for copyright reasons)
• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• Surrey suppletion database many languages

Babel annotated

• en: boring General American accent
• de-3: 8 years. Standard. Pretty fluent but can't read Goethe without some dict.leo.
• cmn-2: 4 years. Wuhan dialect; Beijing dialect is noticeably harder to understand. I can talk to youths and order food and stuff but can't say anything intelligent. Can speak way better than read.
• ru-1: 1 year. Might be able to get by as a tourist in Moscow as long as no one says anything too complicated.
• ga-1: 3 years on and off, self-study. Simple conversation and vocab.
• sco-1: 6 months, mostly self-study. My final for my ling class was on Scots. Can read and speak some.
• gsw-1: 6 months, self-study and classroom. My German class was a ling class about German varieties. Can understand to some extent but can't speak.