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Hello everybody. I specialize in linguistics and history, and I hope to contribute in these areas. Judygreenberg (talk) 02:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

re Lepcis Magna[edit]

Hello Judygreenberg. Thanks for the Arabic name fix on this article. Appreciated! Herostratus (talk) 20:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Asmara[edit]

In regards to your changes to Asmara http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asmara&diff=prev&oldid=395852102

1. This is not a 'Native script variant name,' as you have previously stated, as Tigrigna does not use the letter ሥ, but it uses ስ regularly. In Eritrea this is always the standard even for direct Ge'ez loan-words which used the former spelling.

2. In all native use, Asmara is spelled ኣስመራ, your citation is not an example of native use.

3. Your citation directly denies any claims of it's accuracy. "The information regarding ኣሥመራ in Eritrea on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the United States of America, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of ኣሥመራ information contained here."

4. You have not even answered my question on the relevance of this link http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-879451&fid=1676&c=eritrea (the geographic coordinates of a random church). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mesfin (talk • contribs) 14:14, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

5. I would also like to add that the letter ሥ is kept only in Ethiopia, where it (in addition to ስ) is still used in Amharic; also that "Ye’Inglīz Bēte Kristīyan" is clearly Amharic too. This provides additional evidence of it's irrelevance, as Amharic is a foreign language in Eritrea. Mesfin (talk) 14:35, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


The variant names from the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are built into the global positioning system (GPS), which is currently used by developers of GPS military and consumer applications. Please do not remove them. Judygreenberg (talk) 03:44, 22 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, indeed ኣሥመራ is a foreign word in that sense, but so is the English word "Asmara". Yet, Ethiopian or not, it is part of the database used by the global GPS system, and so it can be useful to, say, someone traveling to Asmara from Ethiopia, when the local GPS application uses that alphabet. The word "Amharic" does NOT mean irrelevant, no matter how irrelevant it may seem to you. Please do not allow personal feelings of nationalism to color your decisions regarding your decisions as to what is useful to others. (Judygreenberg (talk) 06:30, 25 November 2010 (UTC))[reply]

The relevance of the link is that it is a reference showing the source of the information. The information on that page comes from the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. See http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/. That cannot be the reference link, because it is a search engine which does not produce a separate page for the name requested, whereas the geographic.org pages are separate for each name. You can verify the accuracy of the information in geographic.org, by entering the name ASMARA in the NGIA search engine. The results are consistent with the name variant entries that I added to the Asmara article.(Judygreenberg (talk) 06:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC))[reply]

See Asmara talk Mesfin (talk) 11:56, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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