jneden(a)bellsouth.net wrote:
I would also like to create a Wikipedia for the
Mikasuki language, sort of a sister language to Muscogee, one of my ancestral languages.
(My grandmother is Cherokee and my grandfather is Muscogee, although, due to my
upbringing, I have a much stronger Cherokee background.) Mikasuki is used alongside
Muscogee on many of the Seminole areas of Florida, and, although small by numbers, has an
extremely vibrant population of speakers, young and old, actively promoting the language.
I can easily be in touch with the Seminole reservations to inform them of the creation of
a Mikasuki Wikipedia, which, I'm sure (knowing them) will excite them quite a bit.
Mikasuki does not have an ISO code. What is preferred to use in this case?
It is lumped in as one of 139 languages in "nai". SIL uses
"MIK". see
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MIK
For all of these languages, I will set to work on
creating their place in Wikipedia, and in advertising their presence to native speakers.
This is an endangered language. I hope that there are enough speakers
interested in making it work.
Ec