H. Sylvanus

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Babel user information yue-N 呢位用戶嘅母語係粵語。 zh-4 这位用户的中文达到接近母语水平。 cmn-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. en-4 This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. nan-2 Chit-ê iōng-chiá tha̍k-siá Bân-lâm-gú ê lêng-le̍k sī tiong-kip. lzh-0 此君不通文言也。 la-3 Hic usor probe ac Latine conferre potest. fr-3 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances avancées en français. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español. grc-1 Ὅδε ὁ χρώμενος στοιχειώδη γνῶσιν τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς ἔχει. ar-1 هذا المستخدم لديه معرفة أساسية بالعربية. gan-0 箇隻用戶冇滴子贛語嗰水平（或者好艱難去聽轉佢）。 cdo-0 Cī ciáh ê̤ṳng-hô uòng-ciòng mâ̤ huôi-é Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄. 茲隻用戶完全𣍐會意閩東語。 cjy-0 This user has no knowledge of Jinyu (or understands it with considerable difficulty). hsn-0 这位用户不懂或很难理解湘语。 hak-1 Liá chak yung-fu thu̍k-siá Hak-kâ-ngî ke nèn-li̍t he chhû-khip. 邇隻用戶讀寫客家語嘅能力是初級。 ja-0 この利用者は日本語が分かりません (または理解するのがかなり困難です)。 ryu-0 くぬ利用者のー沖縄口読まん書かいびらん(またうふぇ一分かいび一ん)。 Users by language

Babel user information A Latn-4 This user has a near-native understanding of the Latin alphabet. Ω Grek-4 This user has a near-native understanding of the Greek alphabet. Я Cyrl-4 This user has a near-native understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet. /ʑ/ IPA-4 This user has a comprehensive understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Users by language Babel user information 漢 Hani This user's native script is Hanzi. 繁 Hant This user's native script is Traditional Chinese. 简 Hans-4 This user has a near-native understanding of Simplified Chinese. か Hira-1 This user has a basic understanding of Hiragana. 글 Hang-1 This user has a basic understanding of Hangeul. Users by language

Being a novice user, I still have much to learn in terms of languages, etymology and historical linguistics. Feel free to correct me on my talk page.

Explanation of my name

I took the name Sylvanus (Latin, /silˈu̯aː.nus/, equivalent to English Woods) based on what I thought to be a semantic matching to my Chinese surname 梁. Upon reading the following definition for 梁 in the 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi dictionary,

梁、水橋也。从木从水，刅聲。

I've come to the conclusion that perhaps Pontifex is a better translation.

Main interests

• Indo-European
• Semitic
• Sino-Tibetan

Pages of interest

• My /sandbox

Pages created

• منګر

Things that I do besides editing Wiktionary

• Struggle through the IB at school
• Read
  • Philosophy
  • Literature (primarily classic works andhistorical novels)
• Learn languages