Michael-Forest wrote:
Norman as a language is native to Normandy and the Channel Islands. Jersey Norman, or Jèrriais, is the most-spoken, highest-profile, and most literarily accomplished of the Insular Norman dialects. Much more information appears to be available in and about it on the web (in part thanks to *Les Pages Jèrriaises* and the *Section de la Langue Jèrriaise de la Société Jersiaise*) than Continental Norman, as well. I am unaware of the speakership of Continental Norman (last I checked, a survey had not been done), but Jèrriais has thousands of speakers, and is generally considered the dominant dialect of Norman.
It may not be an issue if there are not many speakers of Continental Norman, but are the dialects mutually intelligible, at least in written form? That is, if at some point in the future some Continental Norman speakers wanted a Wikipedia, could they coexist in one Wikipedia, as British and American English do, or would a second Norman Wikipedia have to be created?
-Mark