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by Jens Wilkinson 17 years, 1 month ago
Instructions for Users
- To go to a word that you want to see, simply click on the letter of the alphabet in the sidebar to the left, and then click on the right word.
- Mulivo entries are displayed in the following format:
| Original script | Phonetic transcript (IPA) | Mandarin | 蓝 | lan | English | blue | blu: | Spanish | azul | aθul | Russian | голубой, синий | goluboj, sini | Arabic | ازرق | azraq | Hindi | नीला | ni:la: |
- Sometimes at the top of the page you will find the word along with English synonyms and possibly a short definition.
- This is followed by translations of the word in the 47 standard languages of Mulivo listed in a table.
- The names of the languages are in the left column. (We were using three-letter language codes initially, and they can be still found on some pages.)
- The middle column shows the word in the original script. If you can't see it correctly, it's probably because you don't have the proper font.
- The phonetic transcription to IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is in the right column. The transcriptions are not entirely accurate: for example stress, tone and dialect variations are omitted. The best reference to correct pronunciation is the original script of the language.
- The languages are set in order according to genetic, cultural and geographical relations. The basic order is: East Asian languages, Western languages, Turkic, Afro-Asian and Iranian languages, Indian, Indo-Chinese and Malayo-Polynesian languages, African languages and other languages.
- Sometimes there is a link to additional translations in other languages. The additional languages are ordered alphabetically according to the language names.
Instructions for Contributors
- If you are familiar with a language and know a word that isn't in the table yet, feel free to add it. You will need a password to log on. So please contact the editor.
- If you need to create a new page, use the templates.
- To obtain easily IPA characters, you can use the IPA keyboard.
- There are also pages where we list the words by category. This can be useful for seeing what words have already been created.
Special Pages
- There is a page that shows compound words, to be used by language designers in forming compounds. Please add to it if you of good compounds.
- There is also a page that shows the grammatical attributes of various languages.
- There is a page that shows common metaphors used in languages.
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