The differences between West Frisian (spoken in the Netherlands) and East Frisian (spoken in Saterland) are massive.
It would be rediculous to use the same Wikipedia.
It might be different if fy: already had some content in Saterland Frisian, but to the best of my knowledge it is entirely in Western Frisian with the exception of one article which is bilingual in Western Frisian and North Frisian, and bilingual I mean it has two separate versions)
Mark
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:22:58 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:42:52 +0100, Wouter Steenbeek musiqolog@hotmail.com wrote:
I would like to apply for a Wikipedia in Saterlandic (East) Frisian. Further details can be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saterlandic_Frisian_language and soon at the requests page.
I believe you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saterland_Frisian_language.
For the purposes of ISO 639 codes, Saterland Frisian is regarded as a dialect of Frisian. Can you provide a rationale for why working within the Frisian Wikipedia is not tenable?
I seem to recall reading that there were different spelling conventions for the Frisian spoken in Germany and that spoken in the Netherlands. I have no idea how significant these differences are.
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