On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:54 PM, JP Béland <
lebo.beland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day Milos (and others if you know about that),
>
> I'd like to investigate that more please if you could assist me. My contact
> at the Cree Cultural Institute (after I told him we could create an Innu
> Wikipedia separate from the Cree one which has Innu articles right now) that
> we (may) should divide the Innu into dialects as well because of huge
> phonological differences between West and East. On Ethnologue, where Innu is
> called Montagnais (ISO code moe), they mention Western Montagnais and
> Eastern Montagnais (exactly as described by the guy from the Cree Cultural
> Insitute), but they don't mention any "sub-codes" for those. See
>
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=moe .
>
> That being said, what would be the advantages of having those codes for the
> "sub-dialects"? I mean, the intent is not to have separate Wikipedias. It's
> perfectly possible to sort the articles according to those dialect on one
> Wikipedia without having codes.
If the information on Ethnologue is correct, it suggests implicitly