[Wikipedia-l] A proposal for a new language in wikipedia

Sun Sep 19 06:19:29 UTC 2004

There are *some* texts written recently in Gothic, however most of
them are short and are either private correspondence, diaries, or
poetry (I believe there is an ML as well which uses Gothic), with some
of the poetry actually available on the internet.

--node

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:41:44 -0400, James R. Johnson
<modean52 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Would you be writing in the Gothic script or Latin?  I think it'd be more
> sensible to do it in the Gothic script, since it's designed for the language
> moreso than the Latin script.
> 
> Do you have any modern (in the last 15-20 years) texts written in Gothic
> (language and/or script)?  Can you either attach them or provide an URL for
> them?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fredrik Adevåg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:18 AM
> To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] A proposal for a new language in wikipedia
> 
> I'd like to be responsible for the creation of a wikipediaversion in
> gothic.
> 
> Full name: gothic
> 
> Language code: got
> 
> Number of speakers: 0
> 
> Number of people which has knowledge about gothic: at least 400, probably
> much more.
> 
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