Hoi,
What "we" call Chinese is no longer considered a language..
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zho
Thanks,
GerardM
James Hare wrote:
O RLY?
I thought they were dialects of Chinese.
On 7/4/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Cantonese and Mandarin are BOTH languages according to ISO-639-3.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> James Hare wrote:
>
>> Yes, dialect forks are just a waste of space, bandwidth and time, unless
>>
> the
>
>> dialects vary greatly (such as Cantonese and Mandarin).
>>
>> On 7/3/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> James Hare wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is
>>>>
> because
>
>>> the
>>>
>>>
>>>> two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian
>>>>
> Portuguese
>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>> are very different. Are they?
>>>>
>>>> On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for my English. Recently, a newbie from Portuguese Wikipedia
>>>>>
> has
>
>>>>> proposed on meta a vote to create Wikipedia in european portuguese.
>>>>>
> He
>
>>>>> don't
>>>>> talked about it with any editor from pt:Wikipedia and that proposal
>>>>>
> has
>
>>>>> discovered by me, accidentally. I send a note in Village Pump from
>>>>> pt:wikipedia. More than 30 editors has voted against that proposal.
>>>>> Unconsoled with this, he was suspended that voting and is imposing
>>>>>
> to,
>
>>> in
>>>
>>>
>>>>> a
>>>>> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> As a fluent portuguese speaker, I have no idea why a vote of this
>>>
> nature
>
>>> must be restricted to only those who come from a certain country or
>>> continent. I am, however, opposed to this idea, as well as the earlier
>>> Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia proposal that also failed. To me this
>>> sounds like somebody trying to establish rules that would make his pet
>>> project work, when there is strong opposition to the idea. I'll put
>>> more of my thoughts on the new language poll page to keep down
>>>
> bandwidth.
>
>>> --
>>> Robert Scott Horning