Hello, my name is André and I'm 41 years old and this page is a little outdated. I come from Leipzig where I studied Linguistics and Sinology at the local university . I completed my PhD at the University of Zurich about minority 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 800 books in 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!
Articles to which I contributed a bigger part [ edit ]
Pictures uploaded by me [ edit ]
Plans for the future [ edit ]
Actively planning to go to:
Albania
Want to (and will) go to, but have no certain plans just yet:
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Wikipedians I know or have met in real-life [ edit ]
Czechoslovakia Blahma — a Czech esperantist whom I met on several ISos .
Japan Brangseng0 — a linguist from Japan, working on languages of Northern Burma.
United States Chuck SMITH — an American esperantist, who's omnipresent on every IS. ;)
Malaysia Cmglee — a Chinese friend of Timwi's, whom I met in Cambridge .
East Germany Conny — he had a talk on Wikipedia at the Leipzig Bookfair 2008.
Germany Daniel Krauße — a fellow linguist I met on a conference in Leiden.
East Germany Franczeska — a japanophile Wikipedian from Leipzig.
United States Goulo — another American esperantist whom I met during an IS.
Germany Haspelmath — a linguist who works in the same institute as I do.
East Germany Herr-Schlauschlau — a fellow student of linguistics from my university.
United States IanMaddieson — a famous linguist I met during a conference.
Germany Janwo — a linguist who worked in the same institute as I still do.
Germany Junesun — an esperantist who knows quite many languages.
Switzerland Kevinbaet — a linguistics colleague in Zurich.
Germany Klaus Schmidt — a fellow student of linguistics.
East Germany Klingon83 — someone from my university.
Belgium Lieven — a Klingon teacher.
Germany LogosHelen — a linguist, esperantist, Dr. Who fan and friend of mine.
Germany Lupíro — an Esperantist I know.
Argentina Marcoscramer — a German esperantist, also known from several ISos.
Israel Michael%Sappir — a fellow linguistics student from my university.
Soviet Union Newydd — a colleague who shared office with me at the MPI .
United States Nick Kalivoda — an Esperantist from Athens , Georgia, whom I met on an IS.
United States Ohala — a famous US phonetician.
Germany Paul Ebermann — another German esperantist from an IS.
United States Piraha1 — the linguist who wrote so much on the Pirahã language .
Germany pne — a language geek whom I got to know through LiveJournal as well.
Germany Promb — a linguistics student from Münster .
Hungary Ralesk — I know him through LiveJournal and met im in Budapest , once.
France Rgyalrongskad — a French linguist working on Sino-Tibetan languages mostly.
Germany Robert Weemeyer — one of the "greatest" Esperantist in the world. ;)
East Germany Showmaster — a guy from my former high school.
Germany Sinatra — a (euro)linguist from Germany.
Canada Sonjaaa — Canadian esperantist and inventor of Toki Pona .
United Kingdom Spottedowl — a friend of Timwi, also met him in Cambridge.
Germany Stefan Knauf — a German esperantist.
East Germany Stephan Schneider — German esperantist and folksprakist (or however you call it).
Czechoslovakia Sven Siegmund — khoisanist and one of my office-mates from the MPI.
East Germany Thogo — studied linguistics at the University of Leipzig with me.
Soviet Union Timur Maisak — a Russian linguist.
Germany Timwi — a good friend, who lives in Cambridge now.
United States Trwier — a linguist colleague from the MPI.
East Germany Uwe Gille — a German Wikipedian and veterinary anatomist.
Norway Verdlanco — a Norwegian esperantist whom I first met during the IJK in Lesjöfors , Sweden.
Sweden Zrajm — a fellow Klingonist from Sweden.
East Germany 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 (Soviet Union )
Artemis Alexiadou , linguist ( )
Anthony Aristar , linguist (South Africa )
Mark Aronoff , linguist (Canada )
Peter Baláž , esperantist (Czechoslovakia )*
Hugo Egon Balder , actor (Germany )
Russ Ballard , musician (United Kingdom )
Ben Becker , actor (Germany )
Lea-Marie Becker aka LEA, singer (Germany )
Jorge Mario Bergoglio , Pope Francis (Argentina )
Eckhard Bick , linguist and esperantist (Germany )*
Balthasar Bickel , linguist (Switzerland )*
Detlev Blanke †, esperantist (Nazi Germany )*
Paul Boersma , linguist (Netherlands )
Christophe Boesch †, primatologist (Switzerland )
David Bradley , linguist (United States )
Lyle Campbell , linguist (United States )
Bernard Comrie , linguist (United Kingdom )*
Bruce Darnell , model (United States )
Gérard Diffloth , linguist (France )
George van Driem , linguist (Netherlands )
Matthew Dryer , linguist (United States )
Mamdouh Eldamaty , egyptologist (Egypt )
Bret Easton Ellis , author (United States )
Nicholas Evans , linguist (United States )
Daniel Everett , linguist (United States )
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert , egyptologist (Germany )*
Herbert W. Franke †, sci-fi author (Austria )
Michael Giacchino , composer (United States )
Cliff Goddard , linguist (Australia )
Russell Gray , evolutionary biologist (New Zealand )*
Peter Grünberg †, physicist (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia )
Gregor Gysi , politician (Soviet Union )
Claude Hagège , linguist (Tunisia )
Martin Haspelmath , linguist (Germany )*
Monica Heller , linguistic anthropologist (Canada )
Kim J. Henriksen , singer (Denmark )*
Jean-Jacques Hublin , anthropologist (France )
Larry Hyman , linguist (United States )
Guillaume Jacques , linguist (France )
Kristjan Järvi , conductor (Soviet Union )
Jimmy Kelly , singer (Spain )
Burkhard Jung , politician (Germany )
Martin Klebba , actor and stuntman (United States )
Michael Kretschmer , politician (East Germany )
Manfred Krifka , linguist (Germany )
Sebastian Krumbiegel , singer (East Germany )
Tobias Künzel , singer (East Germany )
Jean-Marc Leclercq , singer (France )
Benny Lewis , polyglot and author (Republic of Ireland )*
Ian Maddieson , linguist (United States )
Susanne Maria Michaelis , linguist (Germany )*
Oliver Masucci , actor (Germany )
Marianne Mithun , linguist (United States )
Michael Mittermeier , comedian (Germany )
Ulrike Mosel , linguist (Allied-occupied Germany )*
Carol Myers-Scotton , linguist (United States )
Andris Nelsons , conductor (Soviet Union )
Johanna Nichols , linguist (United States )*
John Ohala †, linguist (United States )
Marc Okrand , linguist (United States )*
Svante Pääbo , geneticist (Sweden )
Leena Peisa , musician (Finland )
Martin Petzold †, tenor (East Germany )
Don Rosa , comic illustrator (United States )
Malcolm Ross , linguist (United Kingdom )
Bernd Ruf , conductor (Germany )
Laurent Sagart , sinologist (France )
Alicja Sakaguchi , interlinguist (Poland )*
David Scott aka The Kiffness , musician (South Africa )
Bastian Sick , language purist (Germany )
Paul Sidwell , linguist (Australia )*
Anna Siewierska †, linguist (Poland )
Richard Simcott , polyglot (United Kingdom )*
Per K. Sørensen , tibetologist (Denmark )*
Thant Myint-U , historian (United States )
Michael Tomasello , psychologist (United States )
Krisztina Tóth , table tennis player (Hungary )*
Kevin Tuite , linguist (United States )
Edward Vajda , linguist (United States )*
Jürgen Vogel , actor (Germany )
Bertil Wennergren , esperantist (Sweden )*
Søren Wichmann , linguist (Denmark )*
Yanjaa Wintersoul , memory athlete (Mongolia )*
N-true is awarded this Barnstar for his excellent work on the Tsez language article. — Khoikhoi 21:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)