User:A R King

Hello, my name is Alan.

• Formally, I have studied linguistics in the United States (undergraduate studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Berkeley in the early seventies) and England (where I completed a doctorate at the University of London at the beginning of the nineties). Informally I view these as mere bureaucratic episodes in the midst of a course of lifelong, self-directed, compulsive learning about the languages of the world.

• Most of my work focuses in a variety of ways on the study, development and support of minority or endangered languages in many parts of the world.

• I am a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language and a Founding Member of Iniciativa para la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat - Te Miki Tay Tupal.

• I have written several books, articles, etc., principally on the Basque and Nawat (Pipil) languages.

• I live in the Basque Country, a stateless nation in Europe. Other countries where I have lived for a year or longer are Catalonia, El Salvador, England (where I was born), the USA and Wales.

Some external links to "me":

• See some professional information at my translator's profile: translator's profile

• Facebook users can locate my profile by doing a search for "Alan King Basque".

I have studied many languages in a theoretical context. I also have a practical command of a few of them, at varying levels of proficiency, including those shown on the right, and also...

• Naja niweli nitaketza wan nitawawasua tik Nawat ipal Kushkatan.

(Nawat, language of the Pipils of El Salvador in Central America)