Timothy Patrick Snyder

Co-Creator of Tower Orthography with Rebecca Spatz. His username is Blackkdark. He is currently studying Linguistics, Anthropology, and English at Temple University in Philadelphia. He specialises in Historical/Comparative Linguistics.

Specialties

Linguistics

Timothy specialises in historical and comparative linguistics, especially of Romance and Germanic languages. He has studied several major and minor languages of this family of languages. He has also studied ancient scripts such as Egyptian, Cuneiform, Ancient Chinese, Sanskrit, Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc Runic, Elder Fuþark Runic, Younger Fuþark Runic, Ancient Greek, Umbrian, Tuscan, and Phoenicians.

Languages he has studied at one time or another include: High German, Low German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Old Norse, Icelandic, Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Modern English, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.

He also has extensively learned the IPA.

Anthropology

He is minoring in Anthropology with a heavy weight on cultural and linguistic anthropology, although he has studied Archeology as well.

Online Articles by Timothy

Why is English so Messed Up?
Where do Accents come from?
Cognates, Aren't they Great?
Idioms, Nightmares of Language
Religion in Language
Is Middle English a Creole? (Essay for a Linguistic Anthropology Class)

The English Grammar Series

Table of Contents

• English Nouns
• English Articles
• Personal Pronouns
• Other Pronouns
• English Conjunctions
• English Prepositions
• English Verbs: Present and Future
• English Verbs: Simple and Compound Past
• English Verbs: the Three Moods
• English Verbs: Voicing
• English Verbs: Irregular Verbs
• English Verbs: Special Irregulars

The Advanced Grammar Series

Table of Contents

• Grammatical Case 1
• Grammatical Gender
• Articles
• Grammatical Case 2
• Agreement
• Conjugation
• Grammatical Case 3
• Word Order or Basic Syntax

About the IPA

• Why Do We Need the IPA?
• IPA: Introduction and Consonants
• IPA: The Consonants of English
• IPA: The Vowels of English
• IPA: The Vowels Not in English
• IPA: The Consonants Not in English
• IPA: Effects on Sounds

Language Families

Romance Family
Germanic Family

FrathWiki Contributions

Real Languages

Modern English
Anglo-Saxon
High German
Middle English
English

Sound Shifts

High German Consonant Shift

IPA

Voiceless Labial-Velar Approximate ʍ