I asked the main contributor to this project about this, I don't know if this will help with the approval process[1][2]. Could you please take a look?

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#Notification_from_Sylheti_Wikinews

[2] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wp/syl/Transliteration

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2023년 6월 28일 (수) 오후 4:34, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>님이 작성:

Have you gotten any replies from the Sylheti community about this?

Am Do., 15. Juni 2023 um 09:03 Uhr schrieb Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby@gmail.com>:

Hello, Amiu, and thank you for pointing this out! This is indeed something we should look into before making a final approval. The fact that there is an existing open-source converter looks promising, and hopefully we can adapt this to MediaWiki quite easily. I'll reach out to the Sylheti community to ask for their input as well.

tor. 15. juni 2023 kl. 07:58 skrev MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>:

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Date: Wed, 14 June, 2023 at 10:05 PM
Subject: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions
To: jhsoby@wikimedia.no <jhsoby@wikimedia.no>

Hi Jon,

I don't know if this is the correct email to write this.

Thank you for initiating approval for Sylheti Wikipedia https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/langcom@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TKDRS64F5NW2BQBCT4LNNKYV3GMSPVRH/

I would like to point out one thing. Langcom should be aware that Sylheti wikipedia uses sylheti nagri script. And not many sylheti people can actually read or write this script. Most sylheti uses Bengali alphabet to write sylheti (also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sylhetis#Sylheti_nagri_script )

I can see there is a discussion about this on sylheti wikipedia:  https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/syl/ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠚꠣꠔꠣ#আমার_সামান্য_এক_পর্যবেক্ষণ_(ꠝꠞ_ꠔꠥꠞꠣ_ꠇꠤꠀꠟ) where a sylheti pointed out that there is an organization did a survey and found out only 12-25 thousands people can actually write or read this script.

There are c. 10.3 millions sylheti, which means sylheti wikipedia will be un-accessible for vast majority of sylheti.

There is also pointed out that possible solutions would be lang converter like some wiki has. I would request langcom to create or ask developer to create a lang converter for sylheti wikipedia. Mapping already exists, see https://github.com/mayeenulislam/nagri-bangla

Thank you.

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