User:Hiztegilari

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en This user is a native speaker of English. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau moyen en français. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano. la-2 Hic usuarius lingua latina mediae difficultatis conferre potest. eo-2 Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per meza nivelo de Esperanto. ang-1 Þes nēotend cann hine seolf mid grundlicgendre mǣþe Englisces ferian. ar-1 هذا المستخدم يعرف مبادئ العربية.‎ cy-1 Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma gyfrannu ar lefel syml yn y Gymraeg. el-1 Αυτός ο χρήστης μπορεί να συνεισφέρει σε βασικού επιπέδου Ελληνικά. eu-1 Erabiltzaile honek oinarrizko mailan lagun dezake euskaraz. fi-1 Tämä käyttäjä puhuu vähän suomea. grc-1 Ὅδε ἐγκυκλοπαιδειουργὸς ὀλίγον ἀρχαίως Ἑλληνιστὶ γράφειν οἷός τ’ ἐστίν. id-1 Pengguna ini mampu bersumbangsih dengan bahasa Indonesia tingkat dasar. pl-1 Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym. pt-1 Este usuário pode contribuir com um nível básico de português. sw-1 Mtumiaji huyu aweza kushiriki kwa Kiswahili cha kiwango cha msingi.	A Latn This user's native script is the Latin alphabet. /ʑ/ IPA-3 This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Ω Grek-3 This user has an advanced understanding of the Greek alphabet. ض Arab-3 This user has an advanced understanding of the Arabic script. Я Cyrl-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet. ש Hebr-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Hebrew script. ლ Geor-1 This user has a basic understanding of the Georgian alphabet. か Hira-1 This user has a basic understanding of Hiragana. {{t}}-1 This user knows the basics of how to use wiki templates in entries.
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Linguist. So I study lots of languages, and the Babel list over there is pretty arbitrary. I'd prefer to lower some of those higher numbers down half a point just to be on the safe side, with fr-2.5 a bit above the others, but the 3-2-1 division roughly reflects something. Also ja-1 but only in romanization.

After a recent house move I got rid of lots of books on languages I knew I would never get anywhere with. So now I have books (in almost all cases more than one) on:

• Old English, Middle English, English, German, Dutch, Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish
• Latin, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Ancient Greek, Modern Greek
• Czech, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian
• Welsh; Albanian; Persian
• (Standard) Arabic, (Biblical) Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Somali
• Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian
• Basque; Georgian; Turkish; Sumerian; Japanese; Chinese; Malay/Indonesian; Swahili; Bidyara
• British Sign Language
• Esperanto

Etymology

From Basque hiztegilari (“lexicographer”) < hiztegi (“dictionary”) + -lari (“(agent suffix)”)

I have no particular expertise in Basque (or any other of these languages), but I do own Larry Trask's history of it and the Croom Helm reference grammar, among others, and did evening classes with a native speaker. I haven't created an entry for the word hiztegilari because I don't know whether it's in live use or just a dictionary word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is̻tegiʎaɾi/ (in proper Basque)
• IPA^(key): /ɪsˌtegiˈlɑːri/ (in running English)

Let me use this space to record the IPA symbols for the apical sibilant s [s̺] (with an upended dental sign) and the laminal sibilant z [s̻] (with a box). I got these from the word mesedez, which conveniently had them the wrong way round. So I've fixed that. Further note to self: when copying, start at left and arrow two places right, or you only get the s.

Subpages

• User:Hiztegilari/templates

Favourites

• Favourite combination of senses: かむろ (“bobbed hair; baldness; young girl attendant of a high-class prostitute”) Runners-up: ǀxâã (“dance; revere; menstruate for the first time; turn round and round (causing giddiness), hover (as a bird), swing”) and -GHAAZH (“make bubbles; shout; be sleeping”)
• Favourite local custom: წაწლობა (c̣ac̣loba, “An obsolete, sexual practice in Pshavi according to which a young boy and girl would sleep together without actually having sex, which was strictly prohibited.”) Runner-up: qhamuluṭéeli (“woman who secretly bakes ash cakes”)
• Favourite proof that Dutch is a fake language invented to mock English-speakers: broodrooster (“toaster”)
• Favourite category: Category:got:Commelinids. (Ulfilas did tend to bang on a bit about strelitzias, kangaroo paws, bananas, and cardamom.) Close runners-up: Category:Chinese_terms_borrowed_from_Somali ("zebra", to save you looking) and Category:hy:Armadillos (just contains the Armenian for "armadillo" ... so far)
• I just like the fact that a language has a word for this meaning: ёӈӈшэ "to consider something rich of lingonberries"
• Favourite list: Appendix:Numerals_in_various_languages

Idle thoughts

• Why is it that every user renaming you see invariably moves to a worse username?
• I really like the way Javanese script crawls all over the other scripts like wisteria, and I want someone to get Manchu/Mongol to do that.