Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-07-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/7/1 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: As Russia is fairly developed country, it is likely that reaching people who speak those languages and teaching them how to use Wikimedia projects would the task for WM RU. Besides that, I think that all languages of Russia have writing systems and

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-07-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Milosh, thanks for your work. Just to correct: Moksha, Erzya, Yakut (=Sakha), Komi-Zyrian (=Komi) and Lak all have Wikipedias (though admittedly for Lak I am the only active contributor). Adyge is almost identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never have their own

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/7/1 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru: Adyge is almost identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never have their own Wikipedia. From what i hear about this, Adyge and Kabardian may be two varieties of a Circassian [[macrolanguage]]. Maybe someone who cares

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-07-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On 07/01/2011 01:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: Milosh, thanks for your work. Just to correct: Moksha, Erzya, Yakut (=Sakha), Komi-Zyrian (=Komi) and Lak all have Wikipedias (though admittedly for Lak I am the only active contributor). Adyge is almost identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-27 Thread Milos Rancic
On 06/27/2011 12:30 AM, M. Williamson wrote: Some of these actually already have Wikipedias: Meadow Mari Yakut (aka Sakha) Lak Balkar (aka Karachay-Balkar) Yiddish, Eastern (= standard Yiddish, Western Yiddish is the one we are missing but it has much fewer speakers; according to

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-27 Thread Milos Rancic
More data could be found at [1]. It is about coverage of languages by Wikimedia projects by size of population, logarithmic. Numbers are not a surprise. [1] https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tCwO11tFPLPB-SJafDesypgauthkey=CPCE5pMB#gid=1

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-26 Thread M. Williamson
Some of these actually already have Wikipedias: Meadow Mari Yakut (aka Sakha) Lak Balkar (aka Karachay-Balkar) Yiddish, Eastern (= standard Yiddish, Western Yiddish is the one we are missing but it has much fewer speakers; according to Ethnologue there are only 5,400 around the world) In

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-25 Thread Isabell Long
Hi, On 25 Jun 2011, at 05:52, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: While preparing Missing Wikipedias [1], I've got numbers of speakers and languages by area and country with chapter not covered by Wikipedias. Fascinating! Thanks for the work! :-) Isabell.

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-25 Thread Milos Rancic
Forwarding Deryk Chan's email and my response on his request. Original Message Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:55:58 +0200 From: Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com To: Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com On 06/25/2011 01:28

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-25 Thread Bishakha Datta
: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org It is fascinating, although I think I may not have understood the classifications. Is there only one Indian Sign Language, for instance? I was told by a user (in the UK) that several

Re: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On 06/25/2011 03:11 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: I posted this on the India list (many people are not subscribed to foundation-l) - forwarding this question which just popped up. First of all, although numbers look fascinatingly precise, they are far from that. When you make a sum of

[Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-24 Thread Milos Rancic
While preparing Missing Wikipedias [1], I've got numbers of speakers and languages by area and country with chapter not covered by Wikipedias. Numbers are preliminary, some of them should be corrected. I didn't exclude Han languages, which mostly shouldn't be counted, and similar. Note, also,