David Rossel wrote:
And please tell me: Why is there already a
Plattdüütsch wikipedia? And a
Lëtzebuergesch wikipedia? They also seem to be dialects (although
Lëtzebuergesch is official in Luxemburg). So, why shouldn't there be other
dialect wikipedias? In Swabian, in Bernese German, in Saxony-German?
Plattdüütsch is not a dialect. Since 1998, it has been recognized by the
EU:
Plattdüütsch is een eegen Spraak (eenige Lüd dink, dat is een Dialekt).
Upp ingelsch seggt de Lüüt Low Saxon (wesslich vun de Ilv) ellers East
Low German (össlich vun de Ilv) dorto, ook Nedersassisch, Nedersaksisch
un Niedersächsisch (wat nich heet, dat bloots Neddersassen dat snackt)
un Ostnederdüütsch. De offizielle Spraakencode na ISO 639-2 is nds.
Plattdüütsch is in de Europääsche Kort vun de Regionaal un
Minnerheetenspraaken opnahm. Dat is nu güllig vun 1998 af.
Translation (I don't know Plattdüütsch, but with German and Dutch it can
be reasonably understood):
Plattdüütsch is a language (some people think it is a dialect). East of
the Ilv, the English name is Low Saxon. West of the Ilv it's East Low
German. The official language code is, according to ISO 693-2, nds.
Since 1998, Plattdüütsch has been recognized by the European bureau for
minority languages.
And yes, Baseldytsch has ist own orthography and
dictionary (which many
dialects don't). I think that's also an argument for this wikipedia. The
interface are already translated into Baseldytsch. So lets just put it
online under
bsd.wikipedia.org and we shall see how it'll be running and
what the reactions are. Then we can take it offline, or we just let it be in
its developpment to a useful encyclopedia.
+1, for what it's worth.
regards,
Gerrit Holl.
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