Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm interested in talking to these people.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2018-04-28 15:38 GMT+03:00 Mohomodou Houssouba <[email protected]>: > Dear Amir, > > Thank you for pointing this out. Jula / Bamanankan / Bambara (*) – that’s > pretty much the same (Mande) language, and a major one, to be sure. The > name Jula is standard in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire; Bambara in Mali. > > I can put you in contact with people who speak it. We can see off list to > the follow-up as you wish. > > Best regards, > Mohomodou > > * FYI * Radio France Internationale (RFI) and the African Academy of > Languages (ACALAN) use a broader term, “Mandenkan” (Mande language). This > is the RFI Mandenkan feed line: http://ma.rfi.fr/ ** Audio in the > language, texts in French. > ———————————— > Mohomodou Houssouba > www.songhay.org > [email protected] > — > > Am 28.04.2018 um 10:50 schrieb Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected]>: > > Hi, > > Are there any speakers of the Jula language (also known as Dioula)? > > If you know this language, I wanted to let you know that there is demand > from people for Wikipedia articles in this language. > > I've been researching the usage of the search box in Wikipedia's > interlanguage links panel, and I can see that there are many people > searching for this language while they are reading articles in French and > English. They cannot find anything because the Wikipedia in this language > doesn't exist yet, but if it existed, there would be people who would want > to read it. > > If you speak this language or know somebody who does, please contact me. > I'll be happy to help you start a Wikipedia in it. > > (I'm expecting these questions, so I'll just answer them right away. > Q: Where can I read about this research? > A: I'll publish a report very, very soon. > Q: Are there any languages that people are searching? > A: Yes, there are many, and you'll see all of them in the report, but I > wanted to mention Jula especially because it's the most notable languages > that came up in this research in which there is no Wikipedia at all, not > even an Incubator. There are other languages of Africa that came up there, > such as Yoruba, Xhosa and others, but there are Wikipedias in them, albeit > small ones.) > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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