user:Krankman

I am a German from Westfalia, with Silesian and Pomeranian roots. After finishing my studies of Indology, Linguistics und Journalism in the beautiful town of Göttingen, I came to Cologne in 2002 to learn Tamil. I love living in the big-city atmosphere of provincial Cologne with its friendly people and its Kölsch, the Cologne Carnival and Kölsch. I am a freelance proofreader and translator, and I teach Sinhala at the University of Cologne. My main area of interest is the South Indian region, particularly Sri Lanka, where I have spent many months in the past 20 years. I'm especially fond of Sinhala music, particularly by The Gypsies.

Articles that I have significantly contributed to:

• Sinhala words of Tamil origin
• List of Sinhala words of Dutch origin*
• Sinhala language
• List of Sinhala words of Portuguese origin*
• List of loan words in Sri Lankan Tamil
• Ninon Hesse*
• Tissamaharama*
• Tangalle*
• Backpack Picnic*
• François Lelord*

(The articles marked with an asterisk were started by me.)

• Wilhelm Geiger
• Munidasa Kumaratunga
• History of the Sinhalese Language
• Ambalangoda
• improve Sinhala (I'd like to do that on the basis of the Italian article; the construction site is here)
• improve Elu significantly
• improve Martin Wickramasinghe
• improve Ediriweera Sarachchandra
• improve Gunadasa Amarasekara

[http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Krankman Gallery with the photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by me]

• http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/larticles/
• http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate (cool edit counter)
• User:Nickj/Can_We_Link_It
• Wikipedia:HUG
• User:Scriberius/Babelmania

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