On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > Kichwa Wikipedia > (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kichwa): > Interesting request. There is already a "Quechua" Wikipedia at > qu.wikipedia.org. That's a macrolanguage code for all Quechua varieties, but > that project itself is apparently written mainly in the Southern Quechua > varieties spoken in southern Peru and Bolivia. The test project under > discussion here uses qug, the language code for "Chimborazo Highland > Quechua", but in fact represents a variety of Ecuadorean (Northern) > varieties. (The Wp info pages on Incubator for 13 other codes redirect to > this one.) According to the English Wikipedia article > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages#Classification) mutual > intelligibility between regions is not complete. I am not in a position to > say whether the current quwiki can or should incorporate this content in the > long run, but on the whole I'm inclined to recommend that this be marked > "eligible" for now.
Quechua is, actually, a primary language group (although likely connected with Aymaran), but the distance between the languages is not on the level of, for example, Indo-European langauges. What's more important is that there is an ongoing process of standardization of the northern Quechuan languages into one standard Ecuadorian Quechua language. As far as I remember, the Kichwa request is, actually, the request for that language and it is likely that the new Ecuadorian Quechua would get another ISO 639-3 code, as it will be based on multiple existing languages. I agree to make ti eligible, not to insist on "pure Kichwa" in Incubator and to be ready to change the code in the future. _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
