Commons:Category scheme languages

This is still a work in progress...feel free to contribute or make suggestions!

Existing schema

Linguistics ** this should probably be empty

• Phonology - vowel charts (for diff langs), spectograms, articulation diagrams
  • IPA symbols - 8 pngs
    • Unicode - about 16 screenshots of short excerpts in diff langs
  • Minimal pairs (empty)
    • Spanish minimal pairs 2 oggs
  • Phonemes - only 4 oggs?!
  • Pronunciation (huge, see below)
  • Phonetics - small # of files
    • General phonetics - the IPA oggs, weird name?? needs fixing
  • Linguistic maps (huge, see elsewhere)
  • Translation normal
  • Linguists normal
  • Lexicography (empty)
    • Dictionaries normal
  • Language learning only 3 files, but ok
  • Category:Language -->

• Language - should probably be empty
  • Body language - normal, bunch of irrelevant subcats
  • Languages see below
  • Linguistic maps see below
  • Morse code oggs, a few images
  • Multilingualism normal, could maybe use some cleanup
  • Nautical Signal Flags flags
  • Pronunciation see below
  • Proverbs 2 images >:|
  • Puns 2 images
  • Reading actually a really good cat. pictures of people reading! a couple of tables/graphs.
  • Rhetoric one image! :/
    • Speeches few oggs, plus 3 subcats
  • Typography all over the shop...
  • Vocabulary hm not sure about this...
  • Writing random, then...
    • Writing systems see below

Articles

• General phonetics - IPA chart! (in Category:General phonetics, Category:Phonology)

Proposed schema

(yet to be developed)

• Phonology - vowel charts (for diff langs), spectograms, articulation diagrams
  • ...
  • Phonemes
  • Manner of articulation - probably empty
    • Stop consonants - probably empty
      • Category:Voiceless_bilabial_plosive_(IPA_p)
      • (Category for each w:Stop consonant sound - about 30?)
    • Affricates - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Affricate sound - about 20?)
    • Fricatives - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Fricative sound - about 50?)
    • Vowels
      • (Category for each w:Vowel sound - about 30?)
    • (etc. - see w:Manner_of_articulation)
  • Place of articulation
    • Bilabial consonants - probably empty
      • Category:Voiceless_bilabial_plosive_(IPA_p)
      • (Category for each w:Bilabial consonant sound - about 10?)
    • Labiodental consonants - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Labiodental consonant sound - about 10?)
    • Dental consonants - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Dental consonant sound - about 10?)
    • Alveolar consonants - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Alveolar consonant sound - about 10?)
    • Velar consonants - probably empty
      • (Category for each w:Velar consonant sound - about 10?)
    • (etc. - see w:Place_of_articulation)
  • Pronunciation
    • English pronunciation - word & phrase oggs
    • German pronunciation - word & phrase oggs
    • (etc.)

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