The two Wikipedias for Punjabi correspond to the two language codes
"pan" for Eastern Punjabi and "pnb" for Western Punjabi. If Devanagari
Sindhi can be found to correspond to one of the Sindhi codes, which
according to Ethnologue are the following:
* Jadgali [jdg] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/jdg/20> (A
language of Pakistan <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PK>)
* Kacchi [kfr] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kfr/20> (A
language of India <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/IN>)
* Lasi [lss] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/lss/20> (A language
of Pakistan <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PK>)
* Luwati [luv] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/luv/20> (A
language of Oman <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/OM>)
* Sindhi [snd] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/snd/20> (A
language of Pakistan <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PK>)
* Sindhi Bhil [sbn] <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sbn/20> (A
language of Pakistan <https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PK>)
then it can be eligible. The obvious candidate is Kacchi/Kutchi
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutchi_language>, since it's spoken
predominantly in India. There is already a test Wikipedia for "kfr" at
Incubator, but it uses Gujarati script, not Devanagari
(incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/kfr/
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/kfr/>). I
don't know how distinct Kutchi is from the language that the proposer
has in mind.
Antony
Am 2017-04-03 um 22:57 schrieb Satdeep Gill:
Hi Antony,
The reason we should not reject this proposal is the same reason we
have two Wikipedias for Punjabi.
There is no major linguistic difference but complete linguistic
coversion is not possible. Also, we will have to consider one script
superior to other.
Regards
Satdeep Gill
Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
Member, Language Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>
On 03-Apr-2017, at 10:30 PM, Antony Green <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There is a request for Sindi in Devanagari
[meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi>].
As far as anyone can tell, there is no linguistic difference between
this and Arabic-script Sindhi, which already has a Wikipedia at
sd.wikipedia.org <https://sd.wikipedia.org/>.
A user has pointed out
[meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi&diff=16501764&oldid=16478916
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi&diff=16501764&oldid=16478916>]
that online conversion between the two scripts should be possible
(neither script uses capital letters), so is there any reason we
shouldn't just reject this proposal?
Regards,
Antony
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