[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

Tue Jul 12 01:06:46 UTC 2011

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:27, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>
>> > How many people don't
>> > understand any Wikipedia today?
>>
>> Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem
>> are those people who can't read.
>
> For persons who can't read it's far better to learn reading first in
> their own language.

For many of these languages, teaching someone to read in their native
language would first require inventing a written form for that
language, and then creating a body of literature.  Many languages have
no literary tradition, and the only written material is linguistic
studies by outsiders.

-- 
Mark Wagner