That is undeniably true. To be precise, Montenegrin is Ijekavian Serbian written with two additional letters, but that's all. Basically, Montenegrin articles could easily be imported from the Serbian Wikipedia by means of a bot.
It's like we already have separate Wikipedias in British English, American English and Australian English, and now there should also be one in Irish English. Best, Jan 2017-12-27 1:34 GMT+01:00 Michael Everson <[email protected]>: > It’s true. This language is as far as anyone knows identical to Serbian > according to the classification we currently use. It is not certain that > there could be a Monenegrin Wiki that would differ in any meaningful way > from the Serbian one. > > > On 26 Dec 2017, at 22:43, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was going to hold off on this until the holidays are over, but rather > remarkably, unless somebody hacked the Library of Congress's web site, > Montenegrin has been granted an ISO 639–2 code ("cnr"). This has been in > the air over the last month, and represents the first addition to ISO 639–2 > in over five years. The Montenegrin community is jumping for joy, and I've > just full-protected the page Requests for new languages/Wikipedia > Montenegrin 5 on Meta because the discussion is getting out of hand. > > > > If srwiki, hrwiki and bswiki didn't exist, we wouldn't have to create > this one, either. But I have to admit that I don't really see any way we > can currently justify not approving this project (as "eligible"). My > questions are, therefore: > > • Am I right about that? > > • Is LangCom willing to see this project marked as "eligible" > based on an ISO 639-2 code alone? > > • The rules are that non-collective ISO 639-2 codes are supposed > to be reflected in ISO 639-3 as well. So do I wait until this code is > published by SIL? > > • If so, what happens if SIL does not take action? > > > > Steven > > > > Sent from Outlook > > _______________________________________________ > > Langcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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