First of all: native speakers mean that the language is spoke by babies!!!. no babies speak latin or ancient greek. Artificial or constructed languages are the ones that are invented by someone from scratch. latin will always be considered ancient, even if it is used in modern times, not artificial. cml. --- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] STOP DOUBLE STANDARD!!! OR HYPOCRESY!!! To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 8:26 PM
It's different.
There are latin speakers in the Vatican for example.
"De facto" (ops... latin) this is not the "classic" latin language but it's a modified language ("ecclesiatic" latin) which can be considered like an artificial language.
For this reason it can be compared with the Esperanto and the wikinews can be accepted because:
"/If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto, it must have a reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion".
/In any case a community can be present (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin#Modern_use_of_Latin).
Ilario
Marcus Buck wrote:
There's nothing wrong with it except that it does not meet the requirements of the language proposal policy for new projects (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy). That
policy
asks for native speakers. That is nonsense, imho, but that's the text
of
the policy.
Slomox Marcus Buck
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