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Hello, my name is André and I'm 35 years old and this page is a little outdated.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!

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de-N Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
sxu-N This user has a native understanding of Upper Saxon.
eo-4 Ĉi tiu uzanto parolas kun preskaŭ denaska scio de Esperanto.
en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English.
zh-3 这位用户的中文达到高级水平
th-2 ผู้ใช้คนนี้มีความรู้ระดับกลางเกี่ยวกับภาษาไทย
nl-2 Deze gebruiker heeft basiskennis van het Nederlands.
tlh-2 This user has intermediate knowledge of Klingon.
ru-2 Этот участник владеет русским языком на среднем уровне.
kac-2 This user has intermediate knowledge of Kachin.
my-2 ဤအသုံးပြုသူသည် မြန်မာဘာသာ အတွက် အလယ်အလတ်ဗဟုသုတ ရှိသည်။
la-1 Hic usor simplici lingua Latina conferre potest.
es-1 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español.
fr-1 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.
lzh-1此士少解文言
ddo-1 This user has basic knowledge of Dido.
tpi-1 Dispela yusa i save liklik tasol long Tok Pisin.
...This user would like to know all existing languages.
iu...This user wishes to speak Inuktitut.
Hrkt-3
This user has an advanced understanding of the Katakana or Hiragana.
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This user fully understands the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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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 I created

Articles to which I contributed a bigger part

Pictures uploaded by me

Plans for the future

Travels and life

Lived in: China East Germany Germany Switzerland
Spent days to weeks in: Austria Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Denmark France Greece Hungary Italy Japan Myanmar Netherlands Poland Russia Slovakia Spain Sweden Taiwan Thailand Ukraine United Kingdom United States Vietnam
Spent hours in: Canada Laos Liechtenstein Luxembourg Oman Qatar South Korea Turkey United Arab Emirates Vatican City
Actively planning to go to: Albania
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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My subpages

Wikipedians I know or have met in real-life

  • 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)

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.

N-true is awarded this Barnstar for his excellent work on the Tsez language article. Khoikhoi 21:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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