I don't think there's any clear definitions yet, but the points that I think would be worth considering are:
- The amount of difference to an existing language
- Whether it is generally, somewhere or hardly anywhere considered a
language rather than a dialect
- Whether there exists a well-defined and generally accepted orthography
- Whether there are Wikipedians willing to write for the Wikipedia and how
many.
In general, we have gone with ISO-639 in deciding what is a language and what a dialect, only Allemanish and Aromanian have been accepted without such a code. However, that too is not an official policy, just a "the way we have done it till now".
Andre Engels
I am aware of most of this, but my concern is: how much must a poorly recognised and unstandardised language variety differ from its prestigious sister to be granted a wikipedia?
Wouter
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