Hoi,
When we cannot civilly talk to each other, then no, we are not agreeing on
anything.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 December 2017 at 21:41, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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