When you say "that _is_ the _moldovan_ language"... how does Cyrillic writing make it not Moldovan anymore? Also, there is a very clear notice at the top directing people to Latin-alphabet content - it's not as if anybody is actually deprived of being able to read in their preferred script or is difficult to find.
Mark On 8/31/09, Peter Gervai <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 04:10, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote: >> I think it is fair to say that no language "belongs" to a country, it >> belongs to all speakers... what about the hundreds of thousands of >> people who write Moldovan in Cyrillic? > > According to Wikipedia (the enciclopaedia libre of the internet, did > you know that? ;)) article > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language: > > The standard alphabet is Latin (currently official in the Republic of > Moldova). Before 1989, also two versions of Cyrillic had been used: > the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in 1940-89, and the historical Romanian > Cyrillic alphabet until 1857. As of 2008[update], the former remains > in use only in Transnistria. > > This suggests that > 1) language identification 'mo' is written in latin, > 2) it _is_ the _moldovan_ language, > 3) it is used by 90% of the population (4 million+). > > This hints to me as well that there is a language, which is the same, > but written in cyrillic script and used in Transnistria (400 000+ > people), but: > 1) I do not know its ISO code (definitely not "mo"), > 2) I do not remember the policy to host the same language in different > scripts, but if we support that, we should follow the already applied > naming convention (I tend to remember something similar about serbian > wp?) > >> Also I'm curious what Geni feels about them - using "mo" to refer to >> Cyrillic Moldovan is not, in my view, "inaccurate", although it is not >> as specific as perhaps it sh/could be. > > It discriminates 90% of the speakers against 10% of the speakers, so I > would call it "inaccurate" as well. > > I can understand the frustration of the original poster, based on > these facts. Especially since I'm well aware that that region is full > of national pride, even if it ends in violence. Hot headed people. :-) > -- > byte-byte, > grin > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- skype: node.ue _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
