As usual, I'd like the approval of an expert who is familiar with the situation on the ground as early as possible.
I know that there are modern Aramaic languages spoken in Syria and Iraq, as well as in the diaspora in other countries, I know that they are written in the Syriac alphabet, and used for education and media despite the small number of speakers. So they might be eligible. However, I don't know how different they are from the language of the Aramaic Wikipedia we currently have ( arc.wikipedia.org ), especially in their written form, and this is a rather important point. So we need an expert. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-01-19 4:53 GMT-08:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > I am passing through the requests and the first one is the request for > Wikipedia in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [1]. > > The situation is a kind of complex, but I see no reason not to verify > the language itself [2] as eligible, as it should be done with > possible request for Chaldean Neo-Aramaic [3]. > > Syriac language [4] -- and we have a Wikipedia in that language [5], > encoded as the group of Aramaic languages [6] -- has been split around > 1st century AD, meaning that the differences between them are likely > to be comparable with the difference between Romance languages. It > also includes the languages that are not Assyrian nor Chaldean > Neo-Aramaic. > > Anyway, this is just eligibility verification, not the approval of the > project. If there is a real interest in creation of a separate > Wikipedia, we will be able to decide about practical implications at > that point of time. > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_ > languages/Wikipedia_Assyrian_Neo_Aramaic > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic > [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language > [5] https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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