As a linguist I cannot support the argument that "it is only a dialect",
as the continuum between language and dialect is often arbitrary and
political. However, based on the argument that Sichuanese Mandarin does
not have an ISO code, I support the rejection of this request. Should
they succeed in getting an ISO code for their language (for which there
seems to be good reason if I understood the linguistic arguments
correctly), then the request can be reopened or renewed.
Fwiw,
Oliver
On 02-Mar-17 02:37, MF-Warburg wrote:
I propose to reject
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sichuanese_Mandarin>.
The page is a bit messy, but what is certain is that it is only a
dialect and has no ISO 639-3 (nor any other) codes.
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