2009/1/5 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
3. A language with ~1-10M speakers from Sub-Saharan Africa. Such
language probably has a written form made by some missionaries during
the past centuries (or a very similar language has a written form
which may be used). However, the most of the
2009/1/4 Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com:
As far as I know, _all_ new languages are supposed to show their
possibility at the incubator nowadays, which to me means that there is
no need for a separate policy on these languages. My proposal would
be:
* Give a warning to the proposer that
Hoi,
The notion that a language is moribund is problematic. Choosing a level of
100 speakers is arbitrary, because who says so. The requirements are that
someone who speaks the language natively is part of the starting project is
already tough. When people have created an incubator project, the
Hoi,
The notion of redundancy of articles in minority languages coming from you
Milos is painful. There is typically an article of a majority language that
arguably covers the subject best. All other articles are redundant because
you can use something like Google translate to share the benefit of
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The notion that a language is moribund is problematic.
A language is moribund as long as no-one speaking natively that
language is objecting. This non-arbitrary definition has become
de-facto standard since
I wasn't precise while describing my intention, so I'll try to do it
now with responses to the previous emails.
* About moribund languages: It is not a precise term, but it is
possible to make some description and to realize where are the borders
of the term. For example, a language with ~15.000
Well, I remember I read some very interesting articles, mainly from
ethnologists in Scientific American about language conservation.
Personally I think that language conservation is something that is
meaningful and should be done. But I have doubt if WikiMedia can or
should host projects for
