I am not so sure whether it is suitable to speak about "native speakers".
There simply are languages without native speakers or where the number of
native speakers is relatively small, like Esperanto, Latin and Swahili (30
mio. secondary language speakers, 2 mio. native speakers). On the other
hand, Sateersk or dialects like Bavarian or Asturian may have "native"
speakers, but this does not say necessarily that those "native speakers"
want to write in a Wikipedia of "their" dialect.
The existence of an ISO code does not seem to be very significant, indeed.
Ziko
2008/4/16, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello Crazy Lover,
The lack of an ISO 639 code for modern usage of Ancient Greek is only
one argument, and not necessarily one I put much weight on. The policy
requires that a language have living native communities to read the
wiki, and that is my personal position as well. There has been a lot
of discussion on this list about this requirement recently, but no
consensus on any change to it and no similarly objective workable
alternatives.
The subcommittee does not make exceptions to the policy, so discussion
should focus on the policy rather than on exempting particular
requests.
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Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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