On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:22:09 +0100, Gerard
Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
>I propose that we use something like fiu-voro as the language code
>(there is no ethnolgue code for Voro because it lists it as a dialect
>of Estonian).
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>The issue of a code nonwithstanding, I think it should be set up right away.
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>Mark
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>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:11:58 +0000, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Forwarding from foundation-l to wikipedia-l since there was no
>>reaction on that list....
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: Sulev Iva <juvasul(a)ut.ee>
>>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:43:52 +0200
>>Subject: [Foundation-l] Võro Vikipeediä
>>To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org
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>>Dear members of the foundaton,
>>I'm a user of Estonian (Võrok) and English Wikipedia (Võrolang) and a
>>native speaker,
>>researcher and activist of the Võro language spoken in Estonia. Võro
>>(native name Võro
>>or Võro kiil´) belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric
>>languages. It has about
>>70.000 speakers mostly in southern Estonia.
>>Language codes (not yet official) are Vro and Vr. See more about Võro in
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Võro and
http://www.wi.ee/.
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>>I and my friends would like to begin with Võro language Wikipedia. We
>>can translate
>>Estonian language file to Võro (actually we have already started) and begin with
>>creation of new articles. Of course your objection may be that there are too few
>>speakers of Võro. Yes, but the speakers are quite active and
>>computerized people and
>>the Võro language community needs an encyclopedia in their own
>>language. I'm sure the
>>number of potential editors in Võro is not smaller than the Kashoub,
>>Cornish, Gaelic,
>>Faroese or Saami's or many other small languages' one. I have
>>discussed the idea of
>>Võro Wikipedia with Estonian Wikipedia developers: Andres, Ker, Klaus etc.
>>(http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Community_Portal#V.C3.B5rukeelne_Wikipedia).
>>They are supporting the idea and will help us. I hope you will support us too.
>>Best regards, Võrolang -- 80.235.61.143 11:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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There is a code for Voro in the upcoming version of ISO-639 it will be vor.
Thanks,
GerardM
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