User talk:ESTTLG

Welcome

Hey! Great to see more contributors for African languages! Here is our standard welcome message:

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 13:18, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the warm welcome! I'll be taking a roundabout way to contributing (through the path of language contact), primarily because I am not a native speaker of an Afro-Asiatic or Nilo-Saharan language and thus don't trust myself enough to contribute full lemmas (yet). ESTTLG (talk) 13:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Sure! If you ever have any questions regarding formatting or the formal processes of Wiktionary, don't hesitate to write on my talk page or to ping ({{ping|Fytcha}}) me. If you want to want to discuss the linguistic nature of a certain word, you can precede your message with a workgroup ping on the word's talk page by writing {{subst:wgping|ar}} (in the case of Arabic for instance). — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 13:28, 15 June 2022 (UTC)