No, yes, yes.
But then, the same is true of mowp -- regardless of whether or not you
consider Moldovan to be a dialect of Romanian, it undeniably "exists",
and it is undeniable that some people write it in Cyrillic -- thus, it
is a real language which is used on mowp, one which was not "invented"
but which is found in books written by people for whom it was the
native language and has evolved over the centuries from another
natural language, Latin, regardless of whether you call the language
"Romanian written in Cyrillic" or "Moldavian".
And obviously, some people would find it useful, namely those people
whose primary or possibly even only script is Cyrillic. In addition to
the Moldovan population of Transnistria, groups who can be considered
to use Cyrillic in some significant capacity include the Moldovan
communities in Ukraine and Russia, most of whom emigrated before Latin
was made official, although it's probable that the majority would use
Latin nowadays anyhow.
Some people have raised the issue that there is low internet access to
people who write this language in Cyrillic. That is certainly true.
Internet access is poor. But the same is true for Bambara, or Yoruba,
or Fulfulde, and yet we are building Wikipedias for them. The hope is
that someday they will have a better infrastructure, or that perhaps
they can be distributed in print format.
Mark
On 18/03/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
On 18/03/06, Bogdan Giusca
<liste(a)dapyx.com> wrote:
Gerard, you forgot an important thing of this
affair:
NO MOLDOVANS requested or wanted this Wikipedia.
We have *no* Transnistrian Moldovan contributors who want to write a
wikipedia in Cyrillic alphabet.
Its only supporters are Node_ue (the kid in Arizona who barely speaks the
language) and a few Russians who support it for ideological/political
reasons and who can't contribute anyway, as they don't know the
language.
There are no newspapers, no journals, no magazines, no books currently
published in Romanian Cyrillic in Transnistria. The children use
decades old schoolbooks from the time of the Soviet Union.
Virtually everyone there would like to switch the education system to
the Latin alphabet, but dissent is not something easy to do in a
totalitarian regime: there are some Romanian/Moldovan Transnistrians
in prison since 1991 for political dissent.
So, I'd say to close it now, not because of political reasons, but for
the simple fact there are not enough people to contribute to it.
If that's your reason, we should probably close gotwiki as well.
Perhaps gvwiki.
Has anyone apart from yourself and a few (insert nation here)
nationalists contributed to these? Are they real langauges? Would any
real people find them useful?
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