[Wikipedia-l] Request for language: (Jersey) Norman

Mon Nov 14 00:20:50 UTC 2005

The dialects are mutually intelligible, but not without some (however minor
it may be, I'm not entirely sure) difficulty. However, a completely
different spelling standard is used for Continental Norman than is for
Jèrriais, and this could, in theory, cause some problems were speakers of
continental dialects to desire to contribute to a "pan-Norman" wikipedia.

However, that said, I personally think that if there were Norman speakers
around who wished a wikipedia, they would be fine joining a Jèrriais
wikipedia. One comment I once read is that one (continental) Norman speaker
did not believe there was anything left of their language apart from
Jèrriais… (and another was absolutely thrilled to read that an American [me]
was learning "their language" (though I was learning Jèrriais, not
continental Norman))

At 05:54 PM 11/13/2005, you wrote:

It may not be an issue if there are not many speakers of Continental
Norman, but are the dialects mutually intelligible, at least in written
form? That is, if at some point in the future some Continental Norman
speakers wanted a Wikipedia, could they coexist in one Wikipedia, as
British and American English do, or would a second Norman Wikipedia have
to be created?