On 9/1/05, Miquel Turra ain_xaitan@yahoo.es wrote:
If I'm right, I think there are wikipedia in languages as aragonés or asturian with less speakers than murcian.
I don't doubt they exist. I seriously doubt they can be successful.
Most experts says murcian is a language between castilian and catalan with many arab elements. This thing makes possible to say that is a language with own personality and differenciated of castilian and, of course, of the catalan language.
Many experts? Possibly. Most? That'd be surprising. Unfortunately, declaring something as a "language" or a "dialect" is often politics. You know what they say: a language is a dialect with an army.