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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 11:44, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Couple more templates

Hi, I finally got to the updates in the declension appendix and created couple more templates (I decided that naming them with a romanized "code-word" is more memorable instead of using numbers):

• {{myv-noun-ilyk}} – Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:myv-noun-ilyk
• {{myv-noun-pej}} – Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:myv-noun-pej
• {{myv-noun-rivez}} – Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:myv-noun-rivez

I had several questions:

• the appendix has илыктэме but Ščankina's dictionary ({{R:mdf:S}}) has илыктеме, I used the latter assuming it was just a typo, is that correct?
• translative for ilyk is given as илыкс, I changed it to илыккс in the template thinking it's a typo (also it wouldn't be distinguishable from illative then), or is the former correct after all?
• appendix has ривезьтеме but Google gives more results for ривезтеме so I used the latter (-теме starts with a soft vowel which is why I thought that a soft sign before it could be a typo.)

I incorporated categorization in all of the templates with provisional category names of the type "Erzya uma-type nominals", "Erzya san-type nominals", etc. Maybe it's not ideal to spell the terms romanized and they should have been spelled in Cyrillic (e.g., "Erzya ума-type nominals") but for the sake of convenience/expedience I went with romanized, they can easily be renamed.

It would be great if editors would use these inflection table templates as much as possible. From my experience with Moksha I gather that at least in mdf no officially established declension/conjugation types exist and despite its rather large size (for a minority language) the language appears to be "under-studied" for lack of a better term. There appears to be nothing like the Finnish Kotus types, Livonian LĒL types, etc. It would be great if such a (provisional) classification would slowly be built on en.wikt for the first time, because while Wiktionary disallows publishing anything "new" or invented one of its biggest strengths is categorization of terms by all kinds of traits. Neitrāls vārds (talk) 20:21, 6 August 2015 (UTC)