Hello, my name is André and I'm 35 years old and this page is a little outdated.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!
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List of grammatical cases (although wikified by Timwi )
Tsez language
Bezhta language
Babel boxes for Upper Saxon (sxu )
Babel boxes for Tsez (ddo-1 & ddo-4 )
NGC 47
Bahing language (although a big part was taken from Bahing )
Hinukh language
Cohong
Omi language
Intrative case
Jürgen Vogel
List of languages by time of extinction
Alexander Kibrik
Articles to which I contributed a bigger part [ edit ]
Pictures uploaded by me [ edit ]
Plans for the future [ edit ]
Lived in:
Spent days to weeks in:
Spent hours in:
Actively planning to go to:
Want to (and will) go to, but have no certain plans just yet:
Idea and layout stolen from Ëzhiki who stole it from Sebastiankessel who stole it from Guettarda who stole it from White Cat .
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Wikipedians I know or have met in real-life [ edit ]
Blahma — a Czech esperantist whom I met on several ISos .
Brangseng0 — a linguist from Japan, working on languages of Northern Burma.
Chuck SMITH — an American esperantist, who's omnipresent on every IS. ;)
Cmglee — a Chinese friend of Timwi's, whom I met in Cambridge .
Conny — he had a talk on Wikipedia at the Leipzig Bookfair 2008.
Daniel Krauße — a fellow linguist I met on a conference in Leiden.
Franczeska — a japanophile Wikipedian from Leipzig.
Goulo — another American esperantist whom I met during an IS.
Haspelmath — a linguist who works in the same institute as I do.
Herr-Schlauschlau — a fellow student of linguistics from my university.
IanMaddieson — a famous linguist I met during a conference.
Janwo — a linguist who worked in the same institute as I still do.
Junesun — an esperantist who knows quite many languages.
Kevinbaet — a linguistics colleague in Zurich.
Klaus Schmidt — a fellow student of linguistics.
Klingon83 — someone from my university.
Lieven — a Klingon teacher.
LogosHelen — a linguist, esperantist, Dr. Who fan and friend of mine.
Lupíro — an Esperantist I know.
Marcoscramer — a German esperantist, also known from several ISos.
Michael%Sappir — a fellow linguistics student from my university.
Newydd — a colleague who shared office with me at the MPI .
Nick Kalivoda — an Esperantist from Athens , Georgia, whom I met on an IS.
Ohala — a famous US phonetician.
Paul Ebermann — another German esperantist from an IS.
Piraha1 — the linguist who wrote so much on the Pirahã language .
pne — a language geek whom I got to know through LiveJournal as well.
Promb — a linguistics student from Münster .
Ralesk — I know him through LiveJournal and met im in Budapest , once.
Rgyalrongskad — a French linguist working on Sino-Tibetan languages mostly.
Robert Weemeyer — one of the "greatest" Esperantist in the world. ;)
Showmaster — a guy from my former high school.
Sinatra — a (euro)linguist from Germany.
Sonjaaa — Canadian esperantist and inventor of Toki Pona .
Spottedowl — a friend of Timwi, also met him in Cambridge.
Stephan Schneider — German esperantist and folksprakist (or however you call it).
Sven Siegmund — khoisanist and one of my office-mates from the MPI.
Thogo — studied linguistics at the University of Leipzig with me.
Timur Maisak — a Russian linguist.
Timwi — a good friend, who lives in Cambridge now.
Trwier — a linguist colleague from the MPI.
Uwe Gille — a German Wikipedian and veterinary anatomist.
Verdlanco — a Norwegian esperantist whom I first met during the IJK in Lesjöfors , Sweden.
Zrajm — a fellow Klingonist from Sweden.
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) [ edit ]
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 ( )
Artemis Alexiadou , linguist ( )
Anthony Aristar , linguist ( )
Mark Aronoff , linguist ( )
Peter Baláž , esperantist ( )*
Hugo Egon Balder , actor ( )
Russ Ballard , musician ( )
Ben Becker , actor ( )
Lea-Marie Becker aka LEA, singer ( )
Jorge Mario Bergoglio , Pope Francis ( )
Eckhard Bick , linguist and esperantist ( )*
Balthasar Bickel , linguist ( )*
Detlev Blanke †, esperantist ( )*
Paul Boersma , linguist ( )
Christophe Boesch †, primatologist ( )
David Bradley , linguist ( )
Lyle Campbell , linguist ( )
Bernard Comrie , linguist ( )*
Bruce Darnell , model ( )
Gérard Diffloth , linguist ( )
George van Driem , linguist ( )
Matthew Dryer , linguist ( )
Bret Easton Ellis , author ( )
Nicholas Evans , linguist ( )
Daniel Everett , linguist ( )
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert , egyptologist ( )*
Herbert W. Franke †, sci-fi author ( )
Michael Giacchino , composer ( )
Cliff Goddard , linguist ( )
Russell Gray , evolutionary biologist ( )*
Peter Grünberg †, physicist ( )
Gregor Gysi , politician ( )
Claude Hagège , linguist ( )
Martin Haspelmath , linguist ( )*
Monica Heller , linguistic anthropologist ( )
Kim J. Henriksen , singer ( )*
Jean-Jacques Hublin , anthropologist ( )
Larry Hyman , linguist ( )
Guillaume Jacques , linguist ( )
Kristjan Järvi , conductor ( )
Jimmy Kelly , singer ( )
Burkhard Jung , politician ( )
Martin Klebba , actor and stuntman ( )
Michael Kretschmer , politician ( )
Manfred Krifka , linguist ( )
Sebastian Krumbiegel , singer ( )
Tobias Künzel , singer ( )
Jean-Marc Leclercq , singer ( )
Benny Lewis , polyglot and author ( )*
Ian Maddieson , linguist ( )
Susanne Maria Michaelis , linguist ( )*
Oliver Masucci , actor ( )
Marianne Mithun , linguist ( )
Michael Mittermeier , comedian ( )
Ulrike Mosel , linguist ( )*
Carol Myers-Scotton , linguist ( )
Andris Nelsons , conductor ( )
Johanna Nichols , linguist ( )*
John Ohala †, linguist ( )
Marc Okrand , linguist ( )*
Svante Pääbo , geneticist ( )
Leena Peisa , musician ( )
Martin Petzold †, tenor ( )
Don Rosa , comic illustrator ( )
Malcolm Ross , linguist ( )
Bernd Ruf , conductor ( )
Laurent Sagart , sinologist ( )
Alicja Sakaguchi , interlinguist ( )*
David Scott aka The Kiffness , musician ( )
Bastian Sick , language purist ( )
Paul Sidwell , linguist ( )*
Anna Siewierska †, linguist ( )
Richard Simcott , polyglot ( )*
Per K. Sørensen , tibetologist ( )*
Thant Myint-U , historian ( )
Michael Tomasello , psychologist ( )
Krisztina Tóth , table tennis player ( )*
Kevin Tuite , linguist ( )
Edward Vajda , linguist ( )*
Jürgen Vogel , actor ( )
Bertil Wennergren , esperantist ( )*
Søren Wichmann , linguist ( )*
Yanjaa Wintersoul , memory athlete ( )*
N-true is awarded this Barnstar for his excellent work on the Tsez language article. —Khoikhoi 21:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)