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