[Wikipedia-l] Re: About a new language...

Tue Jul 6 17:14:58 UTC 2004

Of course it has an ISO Language code...  SHU...
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SHU

But I have no idea where the cyrillic characters part came from.  I can 
find no information ANYWHERE that suggests there are arabic dialects 
written in cyrillic.  I smell a spoof.

Rick

Timwi wrote:

> Desmond Tutu wrote:
>
>> I write to you because I think it would be important to make another 
>> translation of Wikipedia. I would like to make a translation in Chadian.
>
>
> As far as my research indicates, Chadian is a dialect of Arabic. Do 
> you think it's worth having a whole new Wikipedia in Chadian Arabic?
>
> It also doesn't seem to have an ISO language code; Arabic is 'ar', and 
> the country code for Chad is 'td', so would that make it 
> http://ar-td.wikipedia.org/?
>
> Timwi
>
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