Talk:ɪmaha
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Metaknowledge in topic RFC discussion: February 2013–September 2017
The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup (permalink).
This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.
As pointed out on the talk page last year, the headword does not match the pagename, and I also wonder if the initial letter of the pagename is correct as-is (i.e. if Shabo indeed uses the IPA-esque small-caps I) or should be ı (dotless i). - -sche (discuss) 01:55, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- The bad news: there is basically only one linguist in the world who has studied Shabo. The good news: I have his email. I am not very good at communication, so can I email the address to you? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:02, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- Sure! :) I'll look over our other Shabo words before I e-mail him, to see if there's anything else we need guidance on. (And I'll ask for the word for "water", for Liliana, lol.) - -sche (discuss) 02:30, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- I got your e-mail with his address. Also, I noticed [[ɛmenan]]: I suspect ɪmaha's content was simply copy-paste-o-ed from there, like c'eka was from ciime... which makes me worry if the other pairs of 'synonyms' (ʃeŋgi/cofolkoh, sukuma/jukuma, kaʔal/kaan, kayan/zefa) also contain one error each. - -sche (discuss) 08:31, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- From w:Shabo language#Sample sentences I deduce that the Shabo word for water is mawo. I also notice that neither dotless ı nor IPA-style ɪ appears on that page, though several other IPA characters (such as ɗ, ɛ, ŋ, ʃ) do appear to be used in the orthography. —Angr 08:42, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, I guess it's one of those African languages that use the IPA in its alphabet. - -sche (discuss) 08:51, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- From w:Shabo language#Sample sentences I deduce that the Shabo word for water is mawo. I also notice that neither dotless ı nor IPA-style ɪ appears on that page, though several other IPA characters (such as ɗ, ɛ, ŋ, ʃ) do appear to be used in the orthography. —Angr 08:42, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- Did this ever work out at all? Any responses? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:48, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
- ɪ is not a valid letter in any alphabet out there. A few obscure African languages use Ɩɩ, but that is different. -- Liliana • 09:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
- w:ɪ says ɪ is a letter in the African reference alphabet. - -sche (discuss) 21:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Our Shabo content is clearly a mess left by someone who knew nothing of the language. I have moved this entry and added a reference. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 08:10, 16 September 2017 (UTC)