*Dear ladies and gentlemen,
Hereby I am requesting the creation of a new Wikipedia in Tamazight (Berber)
.
The language code should be: tam
The corresponding homepage url should be:
http://tam.wikipedia.org
The Berber language (native name: Tamazight) is spoken throughout North
Africa, but mainly in Morocco and Algeria. In its core, it is one single
language (with regional accents and varieties, comparable with Arabic,
Dutch, and Norwegian varieties).
This requested new Wikipedia language will be written in Latin script
(simplified Berber-Latin script).
I request to put this new request on the move immediately and to inform me
about any decisions or advice.
I am a native speaker of Berber, a langauge enthusiast, a self-educated
Berber researcher, and I am highly motivated to develop a new thriving
Wikpedia experience in my mother tongue, by opening this opportunity for
thousands of my compatriots who are very enthusiastic about their mother
tongue as well.
Some might argue that there is already a regional-Berber Wikipedia active
(which is the Kabyle Wikipedia -
http://kab.wikipedia.org). This is a
regional variety of the Berber language (spoken in north eastern Algeria),
and it is comparable with Alemannisch and German, or with West-Vlams and
Dutch.
I want to make the year 2010 the year for the Tamazight language, would you
care to help me and thousands of Berbers do that?
I am awaiting your comments and thoughts,
Best regards and happy holidays,
Moubarik Belkasim*