Here is my initial text about Kabiye. Note that I haven't written anything about the culture, as there are not a lot of texts about Kabiye on internet. (And of course, feel free to fix my English, add whatever you think is relevant etc.)

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'''Kabye''' (also known as Kabiye, Kabre, Cabrai or Lanmba) is the name for people who speak the language of the same name in the north central mountains and northern plains of Togo, West Africa. The Kabye are primarily known for farming and cultivation of harsh, dry, infertile lands of Togo. They grow cotton, millet and yams.

Kabye people also live in northwestern Benin near the Togolese border.  The [Logba or Lugba people of Benin are closely related to the Kabye. Broadly defined and subgroups included, the Kabiye people are the second largest ethnic group after Ewe people and they dominate the government and military of Togo.

Kabiye is an Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in northern Togo by approximately one million of speakers. Throughout the 20th century, there was extensive emigration to the centre and south of [[Togo]] and also to Ghana and Benin. According to the Lomé statistics office, Kabiye speakers made up over 23% of the Togolese population in 1999.

Kabiye is one of two national languages of Togo (along with Ewe). In the Togolese context, "national language" currently means that the language is promoted in national media and, in the formal education sector, as an optional exam subject in grades 9 and 10.

(This text has been compiled from the Wikipedia articles Kabye people and Kabiye language.)


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone willing to write a blog post about Kabiye?

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I informed the community about the approval. Some configuration details are
> still missing, I'll file the bug when they have added them.
>
> 2017-02-28 19:17 GMT+01:00 Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org>:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've received the evaluation of a Kabiye language expert, Prof. Dr. Cecile
>> Padayodi. She writes:
>>
>> "I read a few of the articles and as a mother tongue speaker of the Kabiye
>> language and also a linguist and a translator, I find that the orthography
>> has been applied quite consistently. There are a few inconsistencies here
>> and there, but that should not prevent the reader from understanding what is
>> being said."
>>
>> She sent more details on individual words but unless you insist, I won't
>> send it all.
>>
>> As I'm currently in rural Tanzania on a consulting trip with a full
>> schedule and unreliable internet access, I would ask one of you to take the
>> necessary steps to approve kbp:wp - thanks!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08-Feb-17 20:09, Milos Rancic wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I've made the request [1] for a wikipedia in Kabiye [2] eligible. It's a
>> Niger-Congo language spoken by 975,000 people in Togo [3] (plus a few more
>> in Benin and Ghana). What is more, it's been active on the Incubator for a
>> while [4] and may even be ready for approval [5]. I've started to put my
>> feelers out for an independent scholar to verify the content (no leads
>> yet,
>> though). If I don't hear a 'no', I'll intensify my search for a scholar /
>> Kabiye language expert after the 7-day deadline, i.e. from 16 February.
>>
>>
>> [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kabye
>> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabye_language
>> [3]https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kbp
>> [4]https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kbp
>>
>> [5]https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/kbp&wiki=incubatorwiki
>>
>> Thanks, Oliver! I would encourage every LangCom member with enough of
>> Wikimedia experience and enough linguistic confidence to follow Oliver
>> and myself in making eligible obviously valid requests.
>>
>> Oliver, there is one more page which needs an update [1], but I will
>> for sure check always check if you forgot it or not.
>>
>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
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