Marked as eligible. (In relation to Gerard's objection, just to note that the language actually has ISO 639-3 code.)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael's comments to the request summarize the issues with the previous > language code much better than I can, you should give it a read if > interested. > > 2017-01-29 13:51 GMT+01:00 Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]>: >> >> It seems they have completely switched to the Latin alphabet now (the >> language is being actively standardised) so I don't think using a Runic >> alphabet for the modern version of the language makes sense. For an eventual >> Wikisource, though, the Runic alphabet has valid use. >> >> The code issue here is an interesting one. In the first request, 10 years >> ago, they used the code "dlc", which was included in the draft of ISO 639-3, >> but not in the final version. I don't have any sources for this (it's a long >> time ago), but what I heard then was that Elfdalian and Scanian (skånska, >> code scy) were supposed to be in ISO 639-3, but were not included because >> the Swedish authorities would refuse to ratify (/accept?) ISO 639-3, >> ostensibly for political reasons. Now that it has a code, however, I'm more >> than happy to give this eligible status. The fact that it doesn't (yet) have >> an Ethnologue page doesn't matter at all. >> >> I'll contact WMSE to see if they would be interested in supporting this >> language edition. As far as I can tell, there are still no native speakers >> who have signed up for the proposal. >> >> 2017-01-29 9:27 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Amir E. Aharoni >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Mmm... no _Ethnologue_ entry, but ovd is the code, isn't it? >>> > >>> > There's another curiosity here, however: The request page suggests an >>> > autonym in runes, and the Wikipedia page about the language indeed says >>> > that >>> > runes were used for writing this language until very late, but nowadays >>> > the >>> > Latin alphabet is used. >>> >>> We should see what's the most realistic writing system to them. It's >>> possible that runic script is indeed quite fine; or they could have a >>> transliteration engine. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> >> >> >> >> -- >> mvh >> Jon Harald Søby > > > > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
