Angela wrote:
On 7/7/05, Ros' Haruo rosharuo@gmail.com wrote:
In the discussion on setting up Ladino, Angela gave some useful information which included that (paraphrasing from memory) "for natural languages, once there are five supporters and no objections, it can be set up".
I wrote it like that because I don't think there is consensus on the question of whether Wikimedia should have any more constructed or fictional languages.
As far as I'm concerned, Lojban and Gothic are in the same category, they both have a very small speaker population with 100% bilingualism, and Esperanto and English are in the same category, they both have a speaker population larger than the native language of many people. I'd like to see a focus on effective information transfer rather than language preservation, restoration and construction, but I think I'm fighting a losing battle.
-- Tim Starling