Darko Bulatovic wrote:
It's the
global perspective that counts, not the one from the narrow
view of one language. Most languages do not have a one-to-one relation
with any country. If you recognize 3,000 languages and only 200
countries many would be left out. For the endangered languages a
country devoted solely to that language would not be viable.
Ec
I don't understand you very well here. Many language (mostly
European)are having nation marks (English, French, German, Russian,
Albanina, Greek, Italian, ....) so their process of building language is
trough nation history. Same thing is with south Slavic language. It is
not reference to country - more region in which people talk similar.
History of south Slavic people ( Europe) is quite dense in political and
demographic change, So many parts of South Slavs are developed
differently try many centuries and that was also reflected on language.
So here we have situation that all Balkan nations have their own
languages and their wikipedias. I don't see how this same rule should be
different for Montenegro. I will not mention that wikipedia is also
possible for some artificial languages and don't have very harsh and
strict rules regarding this. But in Montenegrin case it seems that
people wish to close eyes. Why?
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.
Ec