[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

Mon Feb 28 23:55:19 UTC 2005

I have an idea: Let's just make a zh-whatever: for all the different
things relating to Chinese that people want. They can mix Cantonese
with Wu with Mandarin, some romanized, some using characters, they can
add classical  chinese, even jiaguwenzi (tortoise shell ancient
characters), as well as zhuyin fuhao, and dungan (ie sichuan mandarin
writtne in cyrillic basically), and we can also mix in English and
Russian and Portuguese and Korean.

So what do you think?

Mark

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:03:08 +0000, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> abc_root wrote:
> 
> > I would like to request a new Wikipedia for classical Chinese or kanbun(
> > 漢文/文言文) which is the standard form of Chinese for about two thousand
> > years and was used throughout East Asia as the formal form of writing. Its
> > importance in East Asia is like that of Latin in Europe. Now that
> > Wikipedias are running or being started for many of the languages in East
> > Asia, it seems that the language which is the backbone of these languages
> > should also have a place.
> 
> So would this be created before or after a Cantonese wikipedia?
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 
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