On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Kichwa Wikipedia
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kichwa):
> Interesting request. There is already a "Quechua" Wikipedia at
> qu.wikipedia.org. That's a macrolanguage code for all Quechua varieties, but
> that project itself is apparently written mainly in the Southern Quechua
> varieties spoken in southern Peru and Bolivia. The test project under
> discussion here uses qug, the language code for "Chimborazo Highland
> Quechua", but in fact represents a variety of Ecuadorean (Northern)
> varieties. (The Wp info pages on Incubator for 13 other codes redirect to
> this one.) According to the English Wikipedia article
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages#Classification) mutual
> intelligibility between regions is not complete. I am not in a position to
> say whether the current quwiki can or should incorporate this content in the
> long run, but on the whole I'm inclined to recommend that this be marked
> "eligible" for now.

Quechua is, actually, a primary language group (although likely
connected with Aymaran), but the distance between the languages is not
on the level of, for example, Indo-European langauges.

What's more important is that there is an ongoing process of
standardization of the northern Quechuan languages into one standard
Ecuadorian Quechua language. As far as I remember, the Kichwa request
is, actually, the request for that language and it is likely that the
new Ecuadorian Quechua would get another ISO 639-3 code, as it will be
based on multiple existing languages.

I agree to make ti eligible, not to insist on "pure Kichwa" in
Incubator and to be ready to change the code in the future.

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