As usual, I'd like the approval of an expert who is familiar with the situation on the ground as early as possible.
I know that there are modern Aramaic languages spoken in Syria and Iraq, as well as in the diaspora in other countries, I know that they are written in the Syriac alphabet, and used for education and media despite the small number of speakers. So they might be eligible.
However, I don't know how different they are from the language of the Aramaic Wikipedia we currently have ( arc.wikipedia.org ), especially in their written form, and this is a rather important point.
So we need an expert.
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2017-01-19 4:53 GMT-08:00 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
I am passing through the requests and the first one is the request for Wikipedia in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [1].
The situation is a kind of complex, but I see no reason not to verify the language itself [2] as eligible, as it should be done with possible request for Chaldean Neo-Aramaic [3].
Syriac language [4] -- and we have a Wikipedia in that language [5], encoded as the group of Aramaic languages [6] -- has been split around 1st century AD, meaning that the differences between them are likely to be comparable with the difference between Romance languages. It also includes the languages that are not Assyrian nor Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
Anyway, this is just eligibility verification, not the approval of the project. If there is a real interest in creation of a separate Wikipedia, we will be able to decide about practical implications at that point of time.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_ languages/Wikipedia_Assyrian_Neo_Aramaic [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language [5] https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language
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