Reviving this discussion from a few months back.

There is now also a request on translatewiki to enable localization in Rajasthani, under the code "raj", which is a macro-language.

In November, Satdeep supported marking the proposal for the Rajasthani Wikipedia as eligible. If I interpret his other response correctly, he also recommended marking Hadauti ineligible and recommending its merging with Rajasthani.

If that's the interpretation, then I guess that it's OK to also enable raj for localization on translatewiki.

This is possibly sensible, but there are two issues:
1. It would be great if someone who is more knowledgeable about India would confirm it before we go on. In particular, it would be great at least to check all the external sources given on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Rajasthani . It would be even better to find more sources that confirm it, or maybe even sources that reject it.

2. According to Ethnologue, at least one individual language under the raj macrolanguage is written using the Arabic script: Gujari ( https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gju/ ). I cannot find a request for it now, but it's spoken by more than a million people, so there may be a request in the future, and if it happens, it should probably be in a separate domain. Would it be OK to have one Wikipedia in a macro-language and another in an individual language? I think that it's OK in practice, but I do ask for other committee members' confirmation.

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‫בתאריך שבת, 9 בנוב׳ 2024 ב-10:11 מאת ‪Satdeep Gill‬‏ <‪satdeepgill@gmail.com‬‏>:‬
Hi all,

I wasn't aware about Hadauti before this but Rajasthani is well known. Given that there are books in Rajasthani and it is taught as a subject in the state of Rajasthan, I am more inclined towards marking Rajasthani eligible while Hadauti seems like a single person's effort and might be better suited to be a part of the broader Rajasthani Wikipedia.

Best
Satdeep


On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 02:54, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hallo,

There are these two open requests:

raj is a macro language code, and hoj is one of the languages that belong to it.

I don't know these languages, and I'm not sure what to do about them.

I sent talk page messages to people who contributed to them, asking whether they actually plan to contribute to them more, and whether the current incubator articles in them look related.

Until we get any substantial replies, I recommend marking the two requests as "Waiting".

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