I am not so sure whether it is suitable to speak about "native speakers". There simply are languages without native speakers or where the number of native speakers is relatively small, like Esperanto, Latin and Swahili (30 mio. secondary language speakers, 2 mio. native speakers). On the other hand, Sateersk or dialects like Bavarian or Asturian may have "native" speakers, but this does not say necessarily that those "native speakers" want to write in a Wikipedia of "their" dialect. The existence of an ISO code does not seem to be very significant, indeed. Ziko
2008/4/16, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com:
Hello Crazy Lover,
The lack of an ISO 639 code for modern usage of Ancient Greek is only one argument, and not necessarily one I put much weight on. The policy requires that a language have living native communities to read the wiki, and that is my personal position as well. There has been a lot of discussion on this list about this requirement recently, but no consensus on any change to it and no similarly objective workable alternatives.
The subcommittee does not make exceptions to the policy, so discussion should focus on the policy rather than on exempting particular requests.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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