User:Nicodene

Wiktionary:Babel
en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level. fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. ka-3 ამ მომხმარებელს შეუძლია წვლილი შეიტანოს ქართული ენის ცოდნის მაღალ დონეზე. la-3 Hic usuarius probe ac latine conferre potest. ca-2 Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell mitjà de català. it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano. pt-2 Este usuário pode contribuir com um nível médio de português. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. uk-2 Користувач може робити внесок українською мовою на середньому рівні.
Read level 2 as “able to read with ease but unable to speak properly”.

I mainly deal with entries in Romance languages and (when relevant) Latin.

Agenda

• Recategorize all 1099 Catalan words that are claimed to be ‘inherited from Old Occitan’ as either inherited from Old Catalan/Latin or borrowed from Old Occitan. ✓
• Remove hundreds of fake Mozarabic words added by Romandalusí, often through thirty or so different IP's. ✓
• Sort through categories for Romance words claimed to be ‘inherited from Latin’ and remove the ones that clearly weren't.
  • Catalan ✓ 15/08/23
  • Franco-Provençal ✓ 08/06/24
  • French:
  • Italian:
  • Neapolitan (largely complete)
  • Occitan:
  • Portuguese:
  • Romanian
  • Spanish ✓ 03/09/22
• Move all 'Reconstructed Latin terms' which are in fact attested (in the appropriate time period) to the mainspace, with citations.
• Recategorize all ‘Terms inherited from Medieval Latin’ as one of the following: (largely complete)
  • Inherited from Early Medieval Latin (attested up to ca. 10th c. AD)
  • Borrowed from (later) Medieval Latin (attested 11th c. and later)
  • Inherited from a reconstructed ‘Vulgar Latin’ term (unattested anywhere prior to 11th c.)
• Neapolitan clean-up:
  • Fix/check metaphonic plurals ✓
  • Fix IPA transcriptions (largely complete)
  • Relemmatize verbs to ⟨-re⟩ spellings ✓
• Franco-Provençal overhaul:
  • Move all lemmas to ORB spellings ✓
  • Add Swadesh list words ✓
  • Add pronouns (largely complete)
  • Fix the verb conjugations
  • Add references to AIS/ALF/FEW wherever applicable
  • Add altforms per DFP/LTA/FEW

Miscellanea

• Mozarabic kharjas
• Italian terms inherited from Latin
• French terms inherited from Latin
• Survivals of the Latin nominative in Romance
• Latin terms with variable monophthongization
• Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/
• Catalan masculine forms with -o
• Georgian terms with /f/

Pet peeves

• If a language has phonemic stress, its presence or absence should be indicated in monosyllabic words, not omitted for the sake of typographical convenience. Consider the minimal pair Anne :: an, that is /ˈæn/ :: /æn/. Representing both as /æn/ would fail to account for the differences in surface realization.
• There is no such thing as contrastive syllable division or contrastive secondary stress in any of the languages with which I am familiar. Any claimed example falls apart once one accounts for morphology.
  • Night-rate :: nitrate = ⫽ˈnaɪt+ˈɹeɪt⫽ :: ⫽ˈnaɪtɹeɪt⫽ = [ˈnaɪt.ˌɹeɪt] :: [ˈnaɪ.ʧɹeɪt]
  • Reagan :: raygun = ⫽ˈɹeɪɡən⫽ :: ⫽ˈɹeɪ+ˈɡʌn⫽ = [ˈɹeɪ.ɡən] :: [ˈɹeɪ.ˌɡʌn]
• Statements along the lines of “X was predominantly an oral language until modern times” are meaningless. Literally every living language was, and many still are.