Hi,
Le Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:38, James R. Johnson a écrit :
I looked, and the Afar, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Bashkir, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bislama, Burmese, Dzongkha, Fijian, Georgian, Greenlandic, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgiz, Lao, Lojban, Quechua, Manx, Nepali, Oriya, Oromo, Panjabi, Pashtu, Rumansh, Sardinian, Setswana, Somali, Sindhi, Sotho, Tajik, Telugu, Tibetan, Tongan, Tsonga, Turkmen, Twi, Uighur, and Xhosa have 10 or fewer articles. Are those who thought little of Gothic or Anglo-Saxon going to look again at those wikis?
It's surprising that Bengali Wikipedia didn't start yet. There are probably more than 200 millions people speaking Bengali, although I don't how many among these have Bengali as their monther tongue (190M according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language, 207M according to other sources). And Bengali people have also a strong reputation for cultural awareness, and the Bengali language has a long tradition of poetry and literature.
Each of Assamese, Burmese, Gujarati, Kannada, Khmer, Nepalese, Oriya, Panjabi, Pashtu, Sindhi, and Telugu have more than 10 millions speakers. However most of these speakers have a poor Internet connectivity at the best. So it just a matter of time when Internet connections become easily available in these parts of the world.
Just a thought.
James
Regards, Yann