Olli Salmi’s
Homepage
Welcome to my homepage. You'll find here a few pages I’ve
uploaded.
Two files about the Kiowa
language.
The notes are in dire need of revision.
Here are Andrew
McKenzie’s pages about
Kiowa.
I also have a couple of pages
of Central Asian Dungan. I’ve
added the original text in Cyrillic to the following two.
Laohu dai dacaidi
Lixin
Central
Asian Dungan as a Chinese Dialect
The
Aspectual System of Soviet Dungan. My paper from 1984, in HTML.
Tone and Stress in Soviet Dungan, my
paper from 1980. I've taken it down because it takes so much space.
Available on request in large files.
The same directory has an old one-page sample of my
Dungan dictionary, which I try to work on. My intention is to
enter my card file into the Linguist’s Shoebox and, when that
is done,
to add words
from existing dictionaries and go on collecting words. The card
file is based on a few Dungan books and the Dungan newspaper Шыйүәди
чи,
which I subscribed to
from
1975 to the
early 1990’s. At the time of writing, August 2011, the whole
card file has been entered on Shoebox and I'm planning to work on the
introduction.
In the same directory is a short lexicon of the Shaanxi dialect of
Dungan, based on Хуэйзў минжынди гўҗир (1976).
I don’t want a link to the files in the Dungan directory.
I’ll make
links myself if I think it’s suitable.
Some Dungan links, unfortunately nothing in Dungan. Many of them may be
dead.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=spiritofdiscipline
Video clips from among Dungans
http://www.dungane.kz a site about
the Dungans in Russian
http://www.dungans.com/
http://www.dunganskiy.narod.ru/
http://www.ejonok.ru/names/Дунгане
On Dungan names
You used to bea able to listen to Dungan on Радио Кабарлар (http://www.radio.kg/,
bottom right hand corner) on Mondays from 17.42 to 17.57 Kyrgyzstan
time (UTC/GMT +6 hours). The program was graduallu shortened and
then disappeared altogehter
http://www.radio.kg/RadioKTR.ram
http://212.42.102.212/RadioKTR.asx
(this doesn't work for me)
Here are two recordings:
http://pinyin.info/news/2008/dungan-language-radio/
Other pages of mine in English:
Diu
fang 丢方 дю фон (the Dungan
board
game). This seems to be one variation of a type of game widespread in
Northern China.
Islamic
Calendar from the Ming
Dynasty
Scoring in wéiqí
Mongolian calendar
Suomeksi:
Vaalimatematiikkaa
Kaksois-Pukelsheim:
Zürichin uusi vaalitapa
Sveitsin hallitusten
vaalitavasta ja kansanäänestyksistä
Lautapeli This now has a short English
summary and an appendix in English on 双陆, Chinese games of
tables (backgammon).
Gregoriaaninen
kuukalenteri
Nisäkkäiden
nimistöstä Mielipide tikutakuehdotuksesta.
olli.salmi@utu.fi (until 31 May, 1998)
olli.salmi@uusikaupunki.fi
Here's a poem sent by Nigel Greenwood to the Kenyon College Chinese
list on 21st January, 2002, when somebody asked how my name is
pronounced. Nigel's passion was gliding and he was killed in a gliding
accident on 13th June, 2009. The poem is published here with the
permission of his family.
> So a double letter (as in "Olli") is pronounced double, i.e. prolonged
> (Ol-li), and "Salmi" is pronounced Sal-mi. Stress is always on the
> first syllable, secondary on the third, etc. (This creates a nice
> rhythm for long poetry, such as the Finnish "national epic" Kalevala -
> whose rhythmic scheme inspired Longfellow's writing of "Hiawatha," I
> believe.)
By the laughing Bothnian waters,
Near the gloomy Finnish forests
And the swampy fenland marshes,
In the town of Ooscaw-Punkee,
Lived the Wise One O-Lee-Salmee,
Guardian of the weighty mail-hoard
In the tongue of Kee-Na-Laiset
(Missives scratched with ancient cunning
On the bark of silver birches) --
Full five thousand secret letters
He, the Wise One, stored in boxes,
Kept in subtle spark-fed folders
Near his Windows, in his loft, where
Down he loaded them with software
From the Net he wove to catch them ...
From his land he once had travelled
Many leagues towards the sunrise,
Ever eastward fared he daily,
O'er the land of Tartar princes,
Till at length, from travel weary,
He had reached the town he longed for --
Fabled Cam-Ba-Lik the Mighty.
There he dwelt among the East-Folk,
Gathering wisdom as he studied,
Reading runes in eastern stroke-script ...
Nigel