On 31 Jan 2018, at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> So... This raises several questions. Really? > 1. Should this language be added to translatewiki.net? This was requested > some time ago: > https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Add_support_for_Western_Armenian_(hym) > . This means that it will be possible to translate MediaWiki into it. Yes, certainly it should. > 2. I couldn't find a request for a Western Armenian Wikipedia, which is > somewhat surprising :) . The closest thing I can find is > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Homshetsma > , which is not the same thing. In any case, whenever such a request is made, > will it be eligible? It will be eligible. There are some articles in the current Armenian Wikipedia that are marked as written in Western Armenian, and I would be expecting them to be migrated. Homshetsi is evidently a dialect of Western Armenian with fewer than 1000 speakers. I do not know anything more about it. It has no ISO code. > I am inclined to answer "yes" to both questions, but with a caveat. I know > very little about the Armenian language. My support is based mainly on > Michael's conclusions of the examination of the differences between Eastern > and Western varieties. We showed lists and paradigms showing the linguistic differences. > However, the documents linked from the first email in this thread mention the > similarity of the situation with Montengrin, which the committee seems not to > support. I don’t support it because it does not appear that Montenegrin differs from Serbian in any significant way. > If we reject Montenegrin, but support Western Armenian, we'll have to explain > it. Absolutely we do not have to do this. There is no dependency between them. None. And Western Armenian is HUGELY different from Eastern Armenian. Please study the attached which was part of our proposal for the language code.
western-armenian.pdf
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