User:Mamûnám ontā́ bán

pá mamūnám ontā́ bán

Myself
Hi, I'm pá mamūnám ontā́ bán! I'm interested in languages and linguistics, amongst other subjects which aren't so relevant here.

My native language is English and I'm currently studying French, Russian and Czech at university. I do have knowledge of other languages, primarily Portuguese, but have also recently taken up casually studying Nāhuatl. In addition to these my "library" contains books on Latin, Polish, Icelandic, Old Church Slavonic, Swahili, Quechua, Ancient Greek, Spanish, Cantonese, Old English, Italian and Mandarin, however my knowledge of these is poor to say the least.


 * IPA for my English
 * Conlang sandbox
 * Portal:Main
 * Rugenian
 * Template:Kihā́mmic
 * Th'ám
 * Conworlds sandbox

I also have a profile on the Conlang Wikkii.

Though I don't often contribute to sites other than these wikis, I can be found on FrathWiki as well as CBB and ZBB under the same username, pá mamūnám ontā́ bán.

Currently my favourite foreign word is "tuku" which is Quechua for "owl".

The French phrase "poudre de perlimpinpin" comes a close second, this idiom translates as "snake oil", i.e. an unproven and questionable remedy.

I'm also fond of the Russian word "почемука". The word is the diminutive form of "почему" ("why") and is used to mean someone who asks an excessive amount of questions.

The German word "Handschuhschneeballwerfer", I believe literally means "one who wears gloves to throw snowballs" ("hand-shoe(glove)-snow-ball-thrower"), is used to mean "coward" and is quite cool too.

My favourite English word is "verisimilitude".

My username


My user name is a translation of a shortened version of a quotation from Cicero's De Officiis.

Latin: non nobis solvm [noːn noːbiːs solʊ̃]

English: not for ourselves alone [ˈnɒt ˈfɔː aʊ̯əˈsɛlvz əˈləʊ̯n]

Kihā́mmic: pá mamūnám ontā́ bán [ˈpa mamuːˈnam ɒnˈtɑː ˈban]

Qafesona: но за сабых самах [no zɑ sɐˈbɨx ˈsamɐx]

This is also the national motto of the country central to my conworld, Kihāmát.

Conlang Wiki
My main pages on the Conlang Wiki are:
 * Kihā́mmic language
 * Jukpë language
 * Qafesona language

I do have more pages and an index of most of them can be found here. The pages not shown above are mainly incomplete and/or sub-pages.

I currently have an offline project, Kunarek, a language based in southern Alaska.

Conworlds Wiki
I have a few pages on the Conworlds Wiki two. These are all based around the Socialist Republic of Kihāmát and an index for these pages can be found here.

Contionary
Sadly, I currently only have on page on Contionary:
 * tárak