Ray Saintonge wrote:
Many languages in Europe do not have countries to match the language: Galician, Catalan, Frisian, Sardinian ... And what should happen with the Roma? Other languages are spoken in several countries. Wikipedia is based on languages, not on nations or the evil of nationalism or patriotism.
I don't like the artificial languages any more than you do. Except for Esperanto, there is nobody that really speaks these languages on a regular basis, and nobody to be the audience for the language games that their supporters like to play. It would be very difficult to get rid of them, as the experience with a totally ridiculous language like Klingon has shown.
I have no problem with Montenegrin independence, though I have sometimes wondered why it was so much slower to break away from Serbia than the other repblics of Yugoslavia. Many of us from outside the Balkans find the persistent chauvinism of the entire area (not just Yugoslavia) thoroughly mystifying, and I don't think that Wikipedia should be encouraging these separate language in the face of contrary linguistic evidence.
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What linguistic evidence? I am asking you all this time to give such evidence. What are the rules on WMF about this? Is it the evidence that 200.000 people talk Montenegrin language?
And I am not talking about countries I am talking about nation marks (Country don't always mean nation). I dont see that we follow each other up on this. You seems talk about something else.
Darko Bulatovic