Maybe you know the Nauruan language or the Nauruan Wikipedia. There used to be false interwiki link names for it. For example, "Nauruose" was a false name for the word "Nauruan" in Nauruan language. Currently, there's another false name for it, "Nauri". But since I've got a very rare grammar about the Nauruan language, I know now the real and only correct name. It is "Ekakair? Naoero". If it's possible, could you please change the false name "Nauri" to the correct name "Ekakair? Naoero" ?? Thank you very much for any help.
P.S.: It seems that English Wikipedia can't read the letter U with a tilde (N with tilde = ñ) because it declares it as a "bad title". The German and the Nauruan Wikipedia don't do so. Please check out the last letter in this template: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Lateinisches_Alphabet. Thank you and best wishes.
= Ekakairù
I believe that "Naoero" alone is more appropriate for an interwiki link.
In addition, Delaporte's dictionary and grammar are from 1907 I believe, and the orthography he uses is not the same one used in modern Nauruan, and some of his work may be inaccurate (missionary linguistic literature from the period often is, for example Batchelor's Ainu dictionary makes a distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants when the language itself does not, a Dungan dictionary attempts to explain the etymology for the word "black smoke" from the word "tobacco" when in fact it is the opposite, etc - at the time, the general technique was that the missionary would learn the language, and then write a grammar without consulting native informants). Thus, I believe it would be better to check with a native speaker.
In fact, from what I know, "Nauri" is the modern Nauruan name for the language. "Naoero" in modern orthography is "Nauru", as in "Nauru bwiema" and not "Naoero boeiema".
Mark
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:14:42 +0100 (MET), cdamvvwgs@gmx.ch cdamvvwgs@gmx.ch wrote:
Maybe you know the Nauruan language or the Nauruan Wikipedia. There used to be false interwiki link names for it. For example, "Nauruose" was a false name for the word "Nauruan" in Nauruan language. Currently, there's another false name for it, "Nauri". But since I've got a very rare grammar about the Nauruan language, I know now the real and only correct name. It is "Ekakair? Naoero". If it's possible, could you please change the false name "Nauri" to the correct name "Ekakair? Naoero" ?? Thank you very much for any help.
P.S.: It seems that English Wikipedia can't read the letter U with a tilde (N with tilde = ñ) because it declares it as a "bad title". The German and the Nauruan Wikipedia don't do so. Please check out the last letter in this template: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Lateinisches_Alphabet. Thank you and best wishes.
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