A little comment from me here: Prof. John Myhill from Haifa University was in contact with me several times about Dinka. He said that he worked with native speakers on developing a unified standard orthography, and he uploaded several articles to the Incubator. He's a proponent of one Wikipedia with the code "din".
I don't know anything else about these languages, and I don't have much of an opinion myself.
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2017-01-29 7:50 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
Oliver, I think this is your area... According to Ethnologue, Dinka [1] is a Nilo-Saharan "macrolanguage", with languages Northeastern Dinka [2], Northwestern Dinka [3], South Central Dinka [4], Southeastern Dinka [5] and Southwestern Dinka [6].
The whole population is 1.4 million, it's about very poor South Sudan. Is there a sense to create one Wikipedia or to go with separate languages?
[1] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/din [2] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dip [3] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/diw [4] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dib [5] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dks
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