I'm a linguist, working at ICSI on the FrameNet project and studying syntactic and semantic patterns at Berkeley. Voracious consumer of dead-language grammars and dictionaries. Horrible homepage at ICSI.

Writing Systems edit

ipa-5
ə
This user has a complete understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Cyrl-4
Д
This user has a near-complete understanding of the Cyrillic script.
Deva-3
This user has an advanced understanding of the Devanagari.
Armn-2
Թ
This user has an intermediate understanding of the Armenian alphabet.
Arab-1
ع
This user has a basic understanding of the Arabic script.
Hebr-1
ש
This user has a basic understanding of the Hebrew alphabet.
Xsux-1
 
This user has a basic understanding of the Cuneiform.
Elder-N
 
This user understands the Elder Futhark as if they were a native.
upa-3This user has an advanced understanding of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.
Teng-3
 
This user has an advanced understanding of the Tengwar.
Zmth-3
 
This user has an advanced understanding of the Mathematical notation.
Linb-1
 
This user has a basic understanding of the Linear B.