Kven is derived from Finnish, and Finish act as a macro language.
Where is the procedure documented?

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
There is a procedure for new languages in the Wikimedia Foundation. In principle languages like Kven that are recognised by the ISO-639-3 are valid for inclusion in Wikidata. The procedure is that the language committee is informed and has the ability to prevent it to happen when need be.

One of the things that are essential is the autonym for the language.

When Kven is added as Finnish, it is 100% incorrect.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 20 December 2015 at 19:43, John Erling Blad <jeblad@gmail.com> wrote:
Just checked, and Kven [2] (fkv), Romanes (rom) [3] and Romani [4] (rotipa, romani rakripa, scandoromani, rmu) is still not valid languages in the monolingual text data type. Those are listed as endangered languages where Norway has a special responsibility. That is "de nasjonale minoritetsspråkene kvensk, romanes og romani"[1]

The Kven language is official language in Porsanger municipality in Norway,[5] but we can't add it properly in the item. It is now added as "Finnish" (Finnic language), but this is not correct. The Kven language is a Finnic language, but it is not the same.

It is sort of embarrassing to explain time and again that we don't support these languages. I have reported this bug before.[7] Protection of minority languages is a human rights obligation, but we simply dismiss that. I think we should take this serious and fix this now.

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