I asked the main contributor to this project about this, I don't know if
this will help with the approval process[1][2]. Could you please take a
look?

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#Notification_from_Sylheti_Wikinews
[2] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wp/syl/Transliteration

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2023년 6월 28일 (수) 오후 4:34, MF-Warburg <[email protected]>님이 작성:

> Have you gotten any replies from the Sylheti community about this?
>
> Am Do., 15. Juni 2023 um 09:03 Uhr schrieb Jon Harald Søby <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hello, Amiu, and thank you for pointing this out! This is indeed
>> something we should look into before making a final approval. The fact that
>> there is an existing open-source converter looks promising, and hopefully
>> we can adapt this to MediaWiki quite easily. I'll reach out to the Sylheti
>> community to ask for their input as well.
>>
>> tor. 15. juni 2023 kl. 07:58 skrev MF-Warburg <[email protected]>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> Von: Ami Keu <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Mi., 14. Juni 2023 um 23:21 Uhr
>>> Subject: Fwd: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Ami Keu <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Wed, 14 June, 2023 at 10:05 PM
>>> Subject: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions
>>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jon,
>>> I don't know if this is the correct email to write this.
>>>
>>> Thank you for initiating approval for Sylheti Wikipedia
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/TKDRS64F5NW2BQBCT4LNNKYV3GMSPVRH/
>>>
>>> I would like to point out one thing. Langcom should be aware that
>>> Sylheti wikipedia uses sylheti nagri script. And not many sylheti people
>>> can actually read or write this script. Most sylheti uses Bengali alphabet
>>> to write sylheti (also see
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sylhetis#Sylheti_nagri_script )
>>>
>>> I can see there is a discussion about this on sylheti wikipedia:
>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/syl/ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠚꠣꠔꠣ#আমার_সামান্য_এক_পর্যবেক্ষণ_(ꠝꠞ_ꠔꠥꠞꠣ_ꠇꠤꠀꠟ)
>>> where a sylheti pointed out that there is an organization did a survey and
>>> found out only 12-25 thousands people can actually write or read this
>>> script.
>>>
>>> There are c. 10.3 millions sylheti, which means sylheti wikipedia will
>>> be un-accessible for vast majority of sylheti.
>>>
>>> There is also pointed out that possible solutions would be lang
>>> converter like some wiki has. I would request langcom to create or ask
>>> developer to create a lang converter for sylheti wikipedia. Mapping already
>>> exists, see https://github.com/mayeenulislam/nagri-bangla
>>>
>>> Thank you.
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>>
>>
>> --
>> mvh
>> Jon Harald Søby
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