Wikipedia talk:Embassy

Inpiaq translations for possible further use

I found these translations and put them together:

• mikiruq is small
• mikiruq makpiġaaq small page

This page is small.

We can use these, along with further translation, to make "stub" templates.

• atanġiqsauruq = is free
• makpiġaat = book (no "encyclopedia")

• is free book
• book is free

(I'll find out how to say Wikipedia using the letters, because some have sounds completely different than English.)

Stub template

EnglishItalianoNihongoRusski 20:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I might have a (temporary) stub template set up, but may need correction:

Uumifa makpibaaq mikiruq. Uumifa makpibaaq savayuitchuq. Pigaatin muk ikayubaa.

This is currently the only way to show stub articles. If you see this, the article is a stub.

EnglishItalianoNihongoRusski 00:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

FA (A++) - F rating for articles

What if we made templates ranging from Featured Article (FA) (A++) to F? Good way to class these low quality articles. You'll see these around. EnglishItalianoNihongoRusski 02:20, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Unicode

WILL USE UNICODE

Use of the online Iñupiaq dictionary

First, while writing iñupiaq is not impossible, it needs language (especially grammar) studies; combining words from the dictionary is not enough. There is one trap, however, which one should not go into, and that is the use of the online Iñupiaq dictionary without correcting its encoding.

The dictionary is made by people with little knowledge of character set encoding. Instead of using Unicode, they have put all the Iñupiaq letters into the ASCII table, making it impossible to write about, say, Bart, Jack, Fairbanks etc. in Iñupiaq. Here, on wikipedia, as elsewhere on the net we use Unicode. Entries from the online Iñupiaq dictionary should thus be translated into Unicode, according to the following table. The wordform tunixabaa from the frontpage should thus read tuniḷaġaa. All entries in the dictionary containing the non-Iñupiaq letters b, x, o, j, f, e should be translated according to the following table (cf. also the perl script on my user page. Trondtr 18:47, 23 August 2007 (UTC).

Translating the Iñupiaq dictionary

Dictionary	Iñupiaq	Unicode	Dictionary	Iñupiaq	Unicode	Comment
B	Ġ	0120	b	ġ	0121	voiced uvular fricative
X	Ḷ	1E36	x	ḷ	1E37	palatal lateral
O	Ł̣	0141 0323	o	ł̣	0142 0323	voiceless palatal lateral
J	Ł	0141	j	ł	0142	voiceless lateral
F	Ŋ	014A	f	ŋ	014B	velar nasal
E	Ñ	00D1	e	ñ	00F1	palatal nasal