On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Dovi Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. With the full acceptance of Latin/Esperanto into the Wikimedia, it > seems that the first question has been put to rest ("no"), despite the > current text of the language policy.
Esperanto has significant number of native speakers, as well as more significant number of active second language speakers. Latin is very exceptional language, with large number of the second language speakers. Esperanto and Latin differ from the most of other languages as they are actively used in regular communication. About neologisms: There wouldn't be a problem to approve Ancient Greek Wikipedia similarly to the Latin one when relevant culture around the language exists. Presently, there are no widely acceptable words in *Ancient* Greek for "file" or for "train". When the most (or the core) of Ancient Greek speakers know to describe computer parts between themselves [relatively] uniquely, it will be possible to have Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. Please, compare the next articles and numbers of their primary and secondary speakers, as well as "language development" category (at Ethnologue): Esperanto [1][2], Latin [3][4], Ancient Greek [5][6]. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto [2] - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=epo [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language [4] - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lat [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language [6] - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=grc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
