Chh8414
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:12, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Peer Review
Chh8414, I read through your changes. I'm not sure if you are done yet.
I liked the language section you added however right off the bat, you are making a couple claims on the language but did not include a citation next to it and the link to the article is not available. While I trust the claims are fully backed in the articles, check to see if there is another source which can be linked, and put it closer to the claim if you can. It was good that you chose a linguistics section to add in the phonology section. Since there was a small set of consonants and vowels, be sure to show how it affects the wording, or even what words contain them. I think you could easily build that out a bit. Often times you'll find examples of reduplication and diacritical or accent marks to help others read it. Good start, I hope my suggestions help on such a challenging topic.
Bob Frasure (talk) 21:37, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Bfrasure, thanks for the suggestions. I went back and added a decent amount of content based on your ideas and added citations where I could. I originally picked Spanish as my language and agonized over how I was going to add to that article since it was so well-formed and thorough. So then I went the opposite route and figured I'd try to find a language that was way lesser-known, but still had something interesting about it. I settled on Ticuna because it is really rare in that it has 5 tones (only one language is thought to have more). But the tough part about this is I had to scour the internet for hours and hours to find any information about the subject. There seems to be one seminal work in the study of the language, and it was a book that was published, but not widely circulated in 1962. I wasn't able to get my hands on it, but most every piece of information I found online referenced that book. So anyway, where I was able to, I did cite as best I could. I also found a number of examples of Ticuna words that I've added to the article because I find them interesting. Also I came across a really cool research paper that talks about how our vocal folds produce less reliable vibrations in cold, dry air and so they hypothesized that complex tonal languages would be more prevalent in hot, humid climates. Ticuna was one of the languages of focus in the publication due to it's complex tones as well as the region in which it is spoken happens to be just south of the equator in very humid areas. Interesting stuff.
Thanks for your help!
Thank you
editYour peer review was so helpful! I think the noun case descriptions are much clearer now thanks to your suggestions.Jackpaulryan (talk) 03:57, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Tikuna
editIn regards to this edit, the Tikuna article is about the people, not the language. The Tikuna language article is about that. Inter&anthro (talk) 14:15, 15 August 2017 (UTC)