Hoi,
There is no such thing as a superior script when both are actually used.
When you are to choose one, for practical reasons it would not be the
Arabic script as it does not include vowels. It follows that Arabic can not
be converted to the majority of other scripts. When it is indeed
Devanagari, the question is if it needs extension. Marathi for instance
does use other characters than Hindi. Also the way characters are written
is not necessarily uniform.
So I am afraid it is more complicated. Do we have demographics for the
number of people who use Devanagari and Arabic script for Sindhi and what
is the official status for either script?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 April 2017 at 22:57, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> wrote:
>
> There is a request for Sindi in Devanagari [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.
> A user has pointed out [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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