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)
>>
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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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