On Friday 25. March 2005. 17:58, monk@zoomcon.com wrote:
Belarusian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_language) has now two quite widely used alphabet versions - Cyrillics and Latin (actually, it also has Arabic alphabet, but it is too rarely used).
I have to say that this is not true at all. For example, Google search on "так" (which means "yes", a fairly common word) on .by domain returns 571,000 hits, while search on "tak" returns 6,110 hits, of which not all are in Belarusian. About one percent of use is not "widely used" by any standard, I wouldn't even say that it is rarely used.
For now, be: wikipedia uses Cyrillics. But we really need Latin version for those, who prefers to use this alphabet. We have strict bidirectional rules to transform any text between Cyrillics <-> Latin.
I also have to say that this is even less true. Nowhere on the Belarusian Wikipedia have I found that anyone needs Latin version of it, there's no vote on the main page about it, noone has ever asked about it on Аб'явы, or anywhere else where I looked. Possibly "we" doesn't mean "Wikipedia users", but then I'd be interested to know who are "we" who need Latin version of Belarusian Wikipedia.