User:ChromeBones

Hello I'm Chrome Bones, a linguistics undergrad student who's been editing wiktionary semi regularly for a couple years now.

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I'm a Punjabi heritage speaker and Punjabi linguistics, especially morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics are one of my main interests. As such much of my edits are on Punjabi language entries, mostly adding IPA pronounciations, various templates, etymologies, and adding entries wholesale. I haven't been editing Punjabi as much recently due to being somewhat disillusioned with Punjabi wiktionary because of how Sanskrit is conflated with Proto-Indo-Aryan.

My other main interest is Kanienʼkéha (Mohawk) and other Iroquoian languages. I've been learning the language for about as long as I've been editing wiktionary. Iroquoian historical linguistics and morphology are what I'm actually looking to study for my post grad studies. I previously had created many entries for Proto Iroquoian based on Julian Charles' thesis but the more I've learned about Proto-Iroquoian historical linguistics I've learned that Charles' work has many flaws and it'll be annoying to have to delete a lot of entries when better, more researched reconstructions of of PI come around. Nonetheless I'll still be adding and editing entries for Kanienʼkéha and maybe other Iroquoian languages if I learn more about them.

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Cool words that I like

(In alphabetical order, not preference (the words))

Punjabi

ਕੜਛੀ (kaṛchī, “ladle (but really any kitchen utensil vaguely spoon shaped)”)

ਥੇਹ (theh, “hill made of ruins”)

ਮ੍ਹੈਂਸ (mhains, “female water buffalo”)

Mohawk

ià꞉iaʼk (“six”)

Ranatakariáhsne (“Washington D.C.”)

Wahstonhronòn꞉ke (“United States”)