Re: [Wikipedia-l] Syriac vs Aramaic

Hi all. Just a short question: Why is it that we have a Wikipedia for the ancient, dead language Aramaic http://arc.wikipedia.org/ - no content currently, but none for its modern descendent Syriac (or "Neo-Aramaic"), spoken by millions, which according to the ISO code would be at http://syr.wikipedia.org/ ? Presumably, the number of people who could actually read and fully understand an Aramaic Wikipedia would be very low, while the number of people who could read and understand a Syriac Wikipedia would be in the range of millions of people, almost exclusively native speakers. Also there is the issue of what script to write it in: it would seem that some people would write Aramaic in the Syriac script, and others in the Hebrew script; on the other hand, Syriac is written exclusively in the Syriac script. I think that ultimately, the existance of arc: is not a Good Thing, but that the existance of syr: would indeed be a Good Thing, especially as there are people fex the people at the Beth Marduto institute who would probably contribute to syr:. --node _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l