I agree. One of the commenters cites the case of Tajik, which I think is an
unreasonable comparison. Do we have a precedent for such requests btw?

Asaf Bartov <[email protected]>, 3 Tem 2020 Cum, 00:33 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:

> (non-member opinion)
> No, I don't think it does.  Every now and then people come up with
> suggestions to Latinize certain languages (I know this well from such
> attempts to Latinize Hebrew).  They generally don't manage to convince more
> than a handful of people to adopt the new scheme, and it dies on the vine.
> History teaches us that such fundamental changes almost only happen through
> the mighty instruments of the state, in concerted efforts involving mass
> media, school textbooks, etc.
>
> Until and unless there is evidence this Latinized Farsi has a constituency
> of readers and potential contributors, I'd say it doesn't merit
> consideration.
>
>    A.
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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:22 AM MF-Warburg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Does this make sense?
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Persian_(in_Latinized_alphabet)
>> I think not.
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