Hi,
I would like to request a luxembourgish version of Wikipedia. First of all, it's the language of my country, Luxembourg, and second, luxembourgish is only spoken in my country and still not by the whole population as we have 42% foreigners who mostly speak french. To keep the language alive, I think it would be a good idea to have a wikipedia in lux.
Ewen Caroline wrote:
Hi,
I would like to request a luxembourgish version of Wikipedia. First of all, it's the language of my country, Luxembourg, and second, luxembourgish is only spoken in my country and still not by the whole population as we have 42% foreigners who mostly speak french. To keep the language alive, I think it would be a good idea to have a wikipedia in lux.
This language has an ISO 639-1 code of "lb" and 250,000 native speakers. According to SIL it is related to German but not mutually intelligible with it. I doubt there will be any objections to me setting this up at lb.wikipedia.org
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:06:47AM +0200, Ewen Caroline wrote:
luxembourgish is only spoken in my country
Not true; it is also spoken in its neighbours (Arelerland, parts of Germany; I've also been told by a Romanian that the "german language" spoke by "German speakers" there is actually much more close to Luxemburguish than to Hochdeutsch). Only in Luxembourg however it has official status and is commonly used in written.
http://lb.wikipedia.org/ would be a very good news.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:06:47AM +0200, Ewen Caroline wrote:
luxembourgish is only spoken in my country
Not true; it is also spoken in its neighbours (Arelerland, parts of Germany; I've also been told by a Romanian that the "german language" spoke by "German speakers" there is actually much more close to Luxemburguish than to Hochdeutsch). Only in Luxembourg however it has official status and is commonly used in written.
Hi Pablo,
Yes. Just for your information, Luxemburguish is also spoken in Belgium in the area of Aubange.
Have a nice day,
Hi again,
Yep, you're both right, but what I meant was, it's not a language like english for ex, that's spoken all over the world by quite a lot of people. moreso, as for the region around arlon, my grandmother told me that they used to speak lux but that today, it's not very common to find a person who can.
and i just remembered, there's a lux village in the US, they speak lux there too, apparently :)
Ehm, since this is the first time that I propose a language, how will I know when the site is up ?
Caroline.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:29:43 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:06:47AM +0200, Ewen Caroline wrote:
luxembourgish is only spoken in my country
Not true; it is also spoken in its neighbours (Arelerland, parts of Germany; I've also been told by a Romanian that the "german language" spoke by "German speakers" there is actually much more close to Luxemburguish than to Hochdeutsch). Only in Luxembourg however it has official status and is commonly used in written.
http://lb.wikipedia.org/ would be a very good news.
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:51:01AM +0200, Ewen Caroline wrote:
moreso, as for the region around arlon, my grandmother told me that they used to speak lux but that today, it's not very common to find a person who can.
In Arlon itself that's true; however in the smaller towns and villages around it it is still quite common (up to 90% of speakers in some places in 1978, according to http://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lussimbordjw%C3%A8s
(there is also an image with text "Eis sprooch iwert all grenzen" that shows where Luxemburguish is spoken: in Luxembourg (where it has official status, along with French and German), Arelerland (at the west, region around Arlon town, in Belgium, where only French has official status), around the region of Sankt-Vith (at the north, in Belgium, where only German has official status, and French special minority status), in Germany (at the east, where only German has official status), and in France (at the south, where only French has official status).
Ewen Caroline wrote:
Ehm, since this is the first time that I propose a language, how will I know when the site is up ?
The progress of newly requested wikis is noted on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages. When it is created, a message will be added to that page for a few weeks before it is removed to make way for new requests. There is often an email to this mailing list, or the wikitech-l list announcing the new language as well.
Angela.
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:58:41PM +0100, Angela_ wrote:
The progress of newly requested wikis is noted on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages. When it is created, a message will be added to that page for a few weeks before it is removed to make way for new requests. There is often an email to
Thanks.
It should be nice to have a similar page with archives on the past demands, and their status (accepted, with the link to the wikipedia; or refused)
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