See below—a confirmation from Coppe van Urk, a Dinka researcher, that the Dinka Wikipedia incubator articles are written in Dinka.
I was impatient, so I followed Vito Genovese's advice, and it worked quickly :) Can we proceed with approval? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Coppe van Urk <[email protected]> Date: 2017-06-01 16:53 GMT+03:00 Subject: Re: Dinka Wikipedia To: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> Dear Amir, Yes, all of these articles seem to be written in fluent Dinka. Note that, although I have studied the language extensively, I'm not a native speaker so it's possible that there are errors I'm not spotting. Best, Coppe 2017-06-01 14:38 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: > Dear Dr. van Urk > > My name is Amir Aharoni, and I'm a member of the Wikimedia Language > Committee. > > We received a request to create a new domain for an edition of Wikipedia > in the Dinka language. Several test articles were already written for it, > and as part of our domain creation procedure, we need to check with a > third-party expert that the articles were indeed written in this language. > > Here's a sample of articles that were written: > > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/din > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Thud%C3%A4n > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Manyw%C3%AB%C3%ABth > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Arekw%C3%ABl > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Lu%C3%B6l_Ajou_De%C5%8B_Akuei > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Ruanda > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/K%C3%A4th%C9%9B% > C9%9Br_ke_Cu%C3%ABny_Thud%C3%A4n > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/R%C9%9B%C9%9Bnke > n_T%C9%94%C5%8Bbaai_%C3%AB_Thud%C3%A4%C3%A4n > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/din/Ku%C9%9Br%C3%AByor > > All I need to know is whether the text there actually looks like it's > written in the Dinka language. > > Thank you! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >
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