Well the important missing languages are Assamese, Bhojpuri, Maithili,
Kashmiri, Manipuri, Nepali, Santali, Sindhi, and Urdu (possibly also Goan
Konkani, Sanskrit, Tibetan).
Note also that Punjabi also has a distinct (but important) Western Punjabi
variant (also officially recognized near the border of Pakistan, but using
the Arabic script instead of Devanagari). As well Urdu is a variant of
Hindi (both are part of the Hindustani macrolanguage) but written with the
Arabic script instead of Devanagari. Even though these variants may be
mutually intelligible orally, this is not the case for their written form
(both scripts have their own complexities and work very differently, a
large majority of Hindustani speakers can only read/write Hindi or Urdu,
but not both).
And that Bishnuprya Manipuri is a distinct variant of Manipuri (but spoken
by a much smaller community).
India is the most populated country in the world, it's not surprising it
has so many languages, and many of them are not "minority languages" and
not even endangered languages, as they are really spoken by millions: 20
languages is a strict minimum just to cover languages actually spoken by
several millions people in India (and many of them do not speak English or
any one of the 8 Indo-Aryan or Dravidian languages you have listed because
they don't need it in real life when their linguistic community is already
very vivid and benefits for governmental support at least in their own
state or territory: for them, English or the 8 languages are just "foreign
languages" they don't understand or have extreme dificulties to live with).
Le mer. 17 juil. 2019 à 00:08, Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> a
écrit :
Thanks Verdy, I'm aware of the language diversity
of the Indian
communities. I had to prioritize my request. Adding all 20+ languages
to the title seemed excessive. :)
I did not restrict translations and as always translations to more
languages than what are listed are welcome.
Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:58 PM Philippe Verdy <verdy_p(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Please note that there are more than 8 communities in India.
Already there are 2 major languages at federal level. Hindi is official,
but
English may be used as an alternate option for communications of Indian
states with the federal institutions, and this option was requested and
used notably by Indian states or territories whose official regional
language is not an Indo-Aryan language (like Hindi or Urdu), notably those
using Dravidian languages (in the South of India), or Tibeto-Burmese and
Sinitic languages (to the North-East).
And for some states there are a few other Italic or Anglo-Saxon
languages kept
culturally by their natives (such as French, Portuguese, and
Dutch), or some creole languages based on these European languages, most of
them being endangered in India and still understood by a small community or
those that deal with international affairs and by immigrants or their
immediate descendants and relatives that speak those languages at home).
There are already (at least) 26 other languages recognized by one or
more states
(either for the full state or for some of their local
communities) and which are now planned in languages to preserve the very
diverse Indian culture.
So this leaves at least 20 important languages that are ignored by your
message
to the Indian communities.
Note that India actually has hundreds languages (much more than the 28
currently
recognized nationally or regionally).
Le mar. 16 juil. 2019 à 23:04, Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> a
écrit :
>
> Hello,
> The Community Engagement department is asking for your help in getting
> an announcement translated to the following languages: Bengali,
> Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and
> Telugu. We plan to post complete translations to the Village Pumps of
> the languages of India.
>
> Announcement text:
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Support_for_our_communi…
I appreciate your prompt support as we need to deliver this message as
soon as we can.
Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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