(Not a member but native Persian speaker) I think it used to be a bigger movement for it in early 2000 because there wasn't much support for Persian keyboard and script in software and lots of people had to write in English script to be able to use their phone but I haven't heard even the craziest people push for this idea recently because the support is fully there. Other reasons: - There's no official place to "regulate" the language. Persian has APLL [1] that regulates both language and the script which we heavily use in fawiki (Our MoS is basically copy of the rules on writing [2]) - Unlike Tajik, the language is not native language of any group (or anyone for that matter). - Tajik is not just a different script, it's quite different from "High Persian" (I don't know the correct translation of the term, I use Hoch Deutsch). For example, it has a significant number of loan words from Russian. I once tried speaking with a Tajik person in latin script, we gave up and switched to English.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature [2] https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%B7 HTH On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:11 AM MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > We had some requests like that before, which were always rejected. One > that comes to mind was Russian in the Latin alphabet. > > > Vito Genovese <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr., 3. Juli 2020, 00:44: > >> 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. >>> >>> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) >>> >>> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities >>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >>> >>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share >>> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >>> https://donate.wikimedia.org >>> >>> >>> 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. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Langcom mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > -- Amir (he/him)
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