User talk:AztecWarrior28

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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 07:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Xhosa tones

Hi, are you a native Xhosa speaker or do you have somewhere to look up the tones? If the latter, I'd love to know where. —Rua (mew) 11:46, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Please don't add pronunciations for words that are only stems and not fully-formed words. The tone can differ depending on what form something is. The imperative has a different tone from the verb stem for example, even if they are otherwise identical. —Rua (mew) 11:56, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

OK. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 12:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

inhlabathi

How do you know that this has underlying HHH and not LHH? —Rua (mew) 12:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Same question again for isibhokodo. How do you think it's HHH and not HLL? —Rua (mew) 17:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Zulu verb tones

The tones of verbs of 1 or 3+ syllables cannot be determined from the imperative form, which is the form that Doke cites. The tone pattern of a 3-syllable imperative is always low-high-low, regardless of the actual tone class. —Rua (mew) 17:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Recent entries

Hey, I noticed you added a bunch of words that I listed as descendants on Proto-Bantu entries. I was kind of hoping to hold off on those, because they're very stubby entries, and they ought to have tone and noun class marked as appropriate. Also, in general, it's best not to create entries just based on what another editor is doing, but instead to work off of sources you know to be reliable. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

I know. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 10:02, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

If you know, why are you still doing it? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 14:36, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Etymology

Hi, when making new entries, could you please add an etymology section with Template:request for etymology when you don't know the etymology? It's nice to have all the missing etymologies categorized together. Smashhoof (talk) 20:02, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

And don’t use {{etyl}}, use {{bor}} and {{der}}. {{etyl}} is being sorted out. Fay Freak (talk) 06:50, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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Xhosa talk pages

Hey, did you see the queries at Talk:isitora and Talk:ityhefu? Any views on the suggestions? ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 07:24, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes. I added the etymologies for these entries. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 12:12, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

All right, thanks. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 12:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 23:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

utlwa - Northern Sotho

Is this really a term in Northern Sotho? nso.oxforddictionaries.com lists kwa with the same meaning and I see no entry for utlwa. I believe kwa is the correct term (and cognate with utlwa). Smashhoof (Talk · Contributions) 22:32, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I don't think so. kwa in Northern Sotho or Sepedi means the same as utlwa in Sesotho. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 23:04, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Proto-Nguni

Given the poor work on reconstructing Proto-Nguni (which completely fails to account for Lala, among other things), we're hoping to remove it from Wiktionary. It's going to be a long process, but there's no reason to add term requests or Proto-Nguni at all in etymologies, as it will just get removed at some point. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Got it. --Tyranitar Man (talk) 06:14, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

ikewu

I can't seem to find any good Xhosa dictionaries, which is really frustrating, but I wanted to ask where you got this entry from. Based on the Zulu entry in Doke, I suspect that both the definition and the noun class may be incorrect. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:21, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for replacing it, but you still left the incorrect definition, which I've now fixed — please try to be careful! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:36, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

ezi-

I noticed the Zulu entry mistakenly said it was the class 8 adjective concord, but really that should be ezin- in Zulu, so I've corrected it. Do you happen to know if the same applies for Xhosa and Northern/Southern Ndebele? Smashhoof (Talk · Contributions) 00:43, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Southern or Northern Ndebele

Hi, I noticed an entry that you created with a Northern Ndebele header but Southern Ndebele language codes and templates: isiyingilizi. I changed the header to match the rest of the entry, but could you verify which language it was as I was just guessing? — Eru·tuon 19:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Xhosa ni-

I noticed that Xhosa ni has two etymologies with exactly the same entries. I also noticed that @Smashhoof changed the Zulu entry (so there's ni- and ní-): https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ni-&type=revision&diff=61935785&oldid=61652082

Do you know if the same change needs to be done for Xhosa? MartinMichlmayr (talk) 09:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I just noticed they are not exactly the same (one says "subject concord" and one "object concord"). But maybe Smashhoof's change still applies to Xhosa? MartinMichlmayr (talk) 09:25, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Glosses should actually describe particular senses and not be lists of translations

Stop doing that kind of “definitions”, which I had to condense. Thanks. Fay Freak (talk) 00:03, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Stop adding entries without sources

Or I will block you. You have been doing this for years, and you've been told many times it's not good enough. Theknightwho (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)