If the Azeri Wikipedia community wants separate Wikipedias for Latin and
Arab script, I'm in favor of doing that, partially because of the
impossibility of automatic conversion and partially because of the
linguistic differences between Northern and Southern Azeri, which if
I've understood the situation correctly are greater in the written
language than the spoken language. (In this respect the difference
between the languages is reminiscent of the difference between Hindi and
Urdu: the spoken languages are largely mutually intelligible, but the
written languages are not, for one thing because the scripts are
different and for another because learnèd words are borrowed from
different sources.)
If that is the route we go, then I'm in favor of keeping the status quo
at az-wp, namely that it is written in Northern Azeri (the standard
language of the Republic of Azerbaijan) in the Latin script; it need not
be moved to azj.
I would prefer that the Arabic-script Southern Azeri Wikipedia use the
code azb and not az-Arab.
Best,
Antony
On 2015-05-04 15:52, Mjbmr wrote:
South Azerbaijani has a iso 639-3 code and that's
azb and not az-arab,
there are resources that make this language separate from North
Azerbaijani and that's not just script.
On 5/4/2015 5:53 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 4 May 2015, at 09:45, Oliver Stegen
<info(a)oliverstegen.net> wrote:
Sorry, Gerard, but I'm voting with MF, mjbmr
and Michael to let
Azeri in Latin script keep az.wikipedia. I also vote for opening a
new wikipedia for Azeri in Arabic script, preferably az-arab.wikipedia.
I
recommend that we go to the community and tell them that we want to
create just that, az-arab.wikipedia, as the solution that we (the
appointed experts) feel is best for their concerns.
I do not believe you will find them opposing it. If however we give
them a basket of options (some of which this committee does not
support) then we are only prolonging problems.
Michael Everson *
http://www.evertype.com/
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