Hoi, The answer that I gave you is clear. There are currently over 7000 languages supported in ISO-639-3. Most are eligible according to the policy for new languages. Thanks, GerardM
On Jan 26, 2008 3:21 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 11:21 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
So please be explicit. You want to definitively challenge the mission set by Jimbo. Worded as: "an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own
language".
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Language_editions )
I don't want to change anything at all about what we do... but rather I don't want to continue to see arguments about language continue without nary a fact in sight.
This is a basic question I've asked. It may not be an *easy* question, but it is a basic one... and without having at least an approximate answer to work from we can't hope to make rational decisions. No wonder so many discussions of language around here devolve into racism and nationalism... if all we have to go on is hunches and emotion.
As far as the old mission goes: What is a person's own language? I'd argue that it's the one that they'd prefer to use for a particular purposes all other things being equal. Other than knowing that thier choice would be among the languages they can use I don't think we know much else without asking them. Claiming that someone prefers a language simply because of their race, nationality, or location is bound to be inaccurate, as is typical of racial or national stereotyping.
Honestly, I don't get why anyone is wasting time even responding to this thread. We aren't gonna change here.
So long as people who advocate multi-lingulism in varrious forms can not support their positions with data like I've asked for here they will find it difficult to reach agreement with people for whom multi-lingulism for multi-lingulisms sake is a lower priority.
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