No offense to you, Michael, but how familiar are you with the Jamaican language?

Amir: Expert confirmation includes more for me than just confirming that it's the same orthography. We also want to verify that the wikipedia makes proper use of the target language in general (grammar, lexis, naturalness of discourse structure and suchlike).

As I had written on 21 April:

Looking at the analysis of its wikipedia pages on the incubator [1], the last three months have seen 3+ editors with tons of activity. The most used core messages have all been translated. [2]
I'm contacting a good friend of mine whose mother is a Patois speaker, just to see whether he can recommend a scholar for verifying content being actually written in Patois.
So, I hope that jam.wikipedia.org - which currently still gives an error message - will be a reality soon!
[...]
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/jam&wiki=incubatorwiki
[2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=codelookup&code=jam

While my friend hasn't responded yet, I've been contacted by Marcos Williamson with the following advice:

I would recommend contacting someone from the Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/

Could one of my LangCom colleagues please look into that? Thanks.

Oliver

On 25-Apr-16 2:25 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

If we can count Michael's comment about the orthography as an expert confirmation, then let's approve it.

If not, we need to find another expert.

I'd be liberal and say Yes, let's approve.

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2016-04-25 14:09 GMT+03:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:

Hoi,
The question is not only if it is eligible ... we agree that it is. The question is what needs to be done to reach the final stage.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 21 April 2016 at 20:12, Antony Green <toniogreen@web.de> wrote:

I agree, it's eligible.

Am 2016-04-21 um 15:13 schrieb Michael Everson:

On 21 Apr 2016, at 05:15, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org> wrote:

If we're talking about Patois (ISO code jam), then it's definitely a valid language. I vote for accepting it.

I’ve looked at it and it’s just the same orthography I’ve published in http://www.evertype.com/books/alice-jam.html

This is definitely good to go.

Michael Everson
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