[Wikipedia-l] Combined effort

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 00:25:07 UTC 2005


Hi all,

I have only had minimal success in sending out e-mails about inactive
Wikipedias.

But then, most of the people I e-mail, I don't know.

I figure that if each of us knows two or three people who speak
languages of inactive Wikipedias, and we each tell all of these people
that we know that there is a Wikipedia in their language, the effect
would be much greater.

So, if you know anybody who speaks one of the following languages,
please tell them.

By continent/country...

Africa --
Botswana: Tswana
Burundi: Kirundi
Congo: Kongo, Lingala
Djibouti: Tigrinya
Ethiopia: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo
Ghana: Akan
Kenya: Gikuyu
Lesotho: Sotho
Madagascar: Malagasy 
Nigeria: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Fulfulde
Rwanda: Rwandan
Senegal: Wolof
Somalia: Somali
South Africa: Ndonga, Shona, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Swaziland: Swati
Uganda: Luganda

Eurasia (including Pacific islands) --
Afghanistan: Pashto (Afghan)
Aromania (Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia): Aromanian
Assyria: Assyrian (not an independent nation)
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani
Bangladesh: Bengali
Bhutan: Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
Burma: Myanmar (Burmese)
Cambodia: Khmer
Fiji: Fijian
France: Breton (in Brittany), Corsican (in Corsica)
French Polynesia: Tahitian
Georgia/Abkhazia: Abkhaz
Greenland: Greenlandic
Guam: Chamorro (Guamanian)
Hawaii: Hawai'ian
India: All major languages
Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstani
Laos: Laotian
Maldives: Divehi
Isle of Man: Manx
Marshall Islands: Marshallese
Nepal: Nepali
Pakistan: Sindhi
Papua New Guinea: Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu
Russia: Avar, Abkhaz, Bashkir, Chechen, Komi
Samoa: Samoan
Sri Lanka: Sinhala
Switzerland: Romansh (in the canton of Graubunden)
Tahiti: Tahitian
Tajikistan: Tajik
Tibet/China: Tibetan
Tonga: Tongan
Turkmenistan: Turkmen
Uzbekistan: Uzbek
Vanuatu: Bislama

Americas (includes Carribean; in Latin America the languages are more
widely spoken) --
Bolivia: Aymara, Guarani
Canada: Cheyenne, Cree, Inuktitut, Inupiak, Ojibwe
Chile: Quechua
Ecuador: Quechua
Greenland: Greenlandic
Haiti: Haitian Creole
Mexico: Nahuatl (Aztec)
Paraguay: Guarani
Peru: Aymara, Quechua
USA: Choctaw, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Cree, Creek, Inupiak, Muscogee, Navajo, Ojibwe

Mark



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