[Foundation-l] A proposal for new language creation

Fri Nov 25 16:01:17 UTC 2005

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>> For dialects, then, we want to require a much higher threshold before
>> allowing the wikipedia -- we need a good reason to start it.  A
>> "Bavarian" Wikipedia proposal would need a much much stronger rationale
>> before we start it than "German".  Obviously.
>
>This point isn't enough to clarify when whe should or should not create
a
>new
>dialect wikipedia, because it's using the unique criteria of interlegibility.
>By exemple, Catalan (my native lang) and Occitan are mutually interlegible

This is not correct. The problem is that some dialects have forgetten their
traditional words. Neapolitan is similar to italian because people don't
speaks the correct Neapolitan. If we read a book (or listen a song) written
in Neapolitan in the previous century also a Neapolitan can have difficulties.

The problem is that: if during the votation someone can exhibits linguistic
studies to support the candidature, the decision can be taken with more reliability.

Ilario

>in
>text written, or between Neapolitan and Italian. And for some persons
>Portuguese and Spanish are interlegible too, but they are considered as
>independent languages. I think that perhaps the point to consider the inclusion
>of a new dialect wikipedia would be better moving around the
>exclusionist-inclusionist poles.
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