Mahir256 added a comment.
In T272442#6765137 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272442#6765137>, @Amire80 wrote: > The languages are probably legit, but is there anyone who actually knows them and plans to add lexemes in them? Both Chakma and Rohingya are quite alive, and to my knowledge Chakma is well (whether Rohingya is also well depends on whether the people who speak it are, I suppose). I am not aware of individuals planning to add lexemes in these languages, and I have not got in touch with anyone from these communities, especially the latter, who are working on documenting their languages (although I am open to doing so once the framework of Wikidata's lexicographical data can be better explained to them using examples from their own languages). I am interested in modeling information within the framework of Wikidata's lexicographical data about languoids in the Eastern Indo-Aryan dialect continuum ranging from Manbhumi in the southwest to Sylheti in the northeast, from Rohingya in the southeast to Rangpuri in the northwest. To this end I've collected a number of references about varieties across this region, which I am citing when creating lexemes in these varieties, but such references for Chakma and Rohingya are rather scattered and less stable than the other varieties (mostly books with WorldCat entries and scans). Rather than waiting for more concentrated and stable resources to come about, the fate of these peoples by which time is less certain, I plan to incorporate these scattered resources as individual citations on lexemes. I do not intend to make my own judgments regarding grammatical inflections thereof--not even if paradigms are given in a reference, as irregularities may not be consistent--so the lexemes themselves may be comparatively empty (with only one form and only one sense), but the circumstances of their use, as well as their relationships with other lexemes in related varieties--and also with other languages for etymological reasons--can be better drawn out with lexicographical data. A first step in making this entire endeavor easier would be to add the appropriate language codes for these languages. I hope my efforts in this regard can serve as a model for those wishing to handle other dialect continua using Wikidata's lexicographical data in their respective parts of the world. (It's interesting that these questions were not also asked of T271589 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271589>.) TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272442 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Mahir256 Cc: Mbch331, jhsoby, Amire80, Mahir256, Aklapper, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Nikki, Wikidata-bugs, aude
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