On 10/16/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
Milos has been working on software tools to allow
for full support in
*one* Wikipedia of all 4 major ways of writing this language.
Actually, four variants are only for Serbian standards :) There would
be more variants if we include Croatian and Bosnian standards and
sub-standards. Bosniaks have two more standards (just Latin and
Cyrillic) and two more sub-standards (they have Ikavian sub-standard
written in both alphabets) and Croats have one more sub-standard
(Ikavian, too; written in Latin alphabet only).
(As well as we should have three more Wikipedias in the (far) future:
so called "dialects" Chakavian, Kaykavian and Torlakian are language
systems with more difference between each other and between Shtokavian
dialect (and all standards which are based on Shtokavian dialect) then
all standards are different between each other. But, this is
completely another story.)
Sounds like some people work very hard at keeping things sub-standard.
Ec