The thing is though, these are intended to be dialect groups.
As such, we have Platt and not a dialect of any particular city, and
Lëtzebuergesch because it is the national language of Luxembourg
(although it is indeed similar to surrounding dialects, it also has
lots of French loanwords).
I would have no objection to a Swabian Wikipedia and all sorts of
other Wikipedias for German languages (vs Germanic languages or German
language).
However I'm not sure about Baseldytsch or other dialects (or
"subdialects" in some opinions). My personal philosophy says that if
people want to build a Baseldytsch Wikipedia and it is not actually
identical to another language or dialect, and Baseldytsch is a natural
language (or for that matter a conlang with native speakers), then it
should be created.
So when it comes down to it, I support it, yes.
Mark
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:55:20 +0100, David Rossel <cdamvvwgs(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Please, don't think about one wikipedia for all
swiss-german dialects. That
would be the same thing like the Alemannic wikipedia: An uncommon mixture of
native dialects. Surely all Baseldytsch speakers understand the Züritüütsch
(zurich-german) speakers and vice versa.
And please tell me: Why is there already a Plattdüütsch wikipedia? And a
Lëtzebuergesch wikipedia? They also seem to be dialects (although
Lëtzebuergesch is official in Luxemburg). So, why shouldn't there be other
dialect wikipedias? In Swabian, in Bernese German, in Saxony-German?
And yes, Baseldytsch has ist own orthography and dictionary (which many
dialects don't). I think that's also an argument for this wikipedia. The
interface are already translated into Baseldytsch. So lets just put it
online under
bsd.wikipedia.org and we shall see how it'll be running and
what the reactions are. Then we can take it offline, or we just let it be in
its developpment to a useful encyclopedia.
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