Hi, There's a new request for a Wikipedia in Noakhali (or Noakhalian): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Noakhalian
The ISO 639 code oak was approved just a few months ago: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/oak The code is so new, that Ethnologue still doesn't have a page for it; if I search for "Noakhali" in the search box, it finds it as a dialect of Bengali. So I can think of two potential issues: 1. If ISO 639 approved a code, it may mean that the language is distinct from Bengali. Or not. ISO 639 already approved some codes for languages that weren't distinct. I guess that this is not the case here, because the politics here are not the same as in the Balkans, for example, and also because Glottolog lists this language in a branch that is quite far from standard Bengali: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/noak1234 2. The language doesn't seem to have a standardized written form. Formally, it's not necessarily a problem, but it may be an impediment in practice. I'm somewhat inclined to mark it as eligible, but I'd really love to hear more opinions. Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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