On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:56:54 +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:55:05 -0500, Stephen Forrest
It seems to me to be a reasonable thing to insist that a language must have at one time been a native tongue of some human population in order for it to be granted a wikipedia.
No! With that criterium the Esperanto wikipedia would have been denied.
According to independent sources (as ethnologue.com), the number of native speakers of Esperanto is about 200 to 2000. I presume, the number is underestimated: there are at least four "denaskuloj" (native speakers of Esperanto) only among my close friends.
Thank you all for mentioning Ossetian! :) At the moment we use MediaWiki at http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/osetio/ to collect community, to ellaborate better terms for technical things and just to practice before getting to real work.
Sincerely, Slavik Ivanov, Russia