Wikipedia Lishan Didan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lishan_Didan> (trg): Modern Jewish Aramaic dialect from the Caucasus, now mostly spoken in Israel, with about 4500 speakers. No content has been created, so I am placing on hold.
Wikipedia Gronings<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Gronings> (gos) and Wikipedia East Frisian Low Saxon<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_East_Frisian_Low_Saxon> (frs): These are two requests from the same individual. So far, each of these tests has only a one-sentence main page on Incubator. These languages are both part of the dialect continuum in Low Saxon/Low German, even though each has its own language code. The claim is made that they are quite similar to each other, but different enough from other dialects that they don't fit into either Low German Wikipedia<https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:H%C3%B6%C3%B6ftsiet> or Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia<https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6%C3%A4rblad>. That seems a little hard for me to believe, especially given that there is a small Gronings section<https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portoal:Grunnen> of the Dutch Low Saxon project. I'm going to wait for some comments from the Committee on these. My opinion is (a) we should probably reject them both, on the grounds that the language space is adequately covered within the two existing projects, but (b) if you want to make these eligible, that they be made eligible as a merged test. (The requester would be amenable to that solution.) Wikipedia Pu-Xian Min<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Pu-Xian_Min> (cpx): Clearly eligible, and I will mark it so. Wikipedia Amis<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Amis> (ami): This is an indigenous language of Taiwan, spoken by 180,000 people. The enwiki article describes it as a dialect cluster. There is some controversy around whether Sakizaya is part of this cluster or not, and a group running a Sakizaya test on Incubator is working on a submission to SIL for 2018, supported by the Taiwan government. But there is no controversy about Amis itself, and the test is active. So this is eligible, and I will mark it so. Steven Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>
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