Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
The reason I didn't create these when I created ilo is:
- Samogitian, Banyumasan, Ripuarian, Dutch-Low Saxon: Don't have an
ISO code (nds-nl claims to have one but that looks like a pseudo-ISO-code)
- Banyumasan, Ripuarian are dialects according to Wikipedia,
Dutch-Low Saxon appears to be some kind of dialect as well.
Hoi, The problem with Low Saxon is that some people have high jacked the Low Saxon Wikipedia by insisting on a German dominated orthography. Because of the incompatibility that this creates with the Dutch Low Saxon, there is this need for a separate wikipedia. To make matters even more weird, one of the persons insisting on this Sass orthography is not even a Lower Saxon speaker but is one who does contribute to the nds.wikipedia for a hobby.
Then again, I am not interested in the nds.wiktionary.org really. But denying the nds-nl wikipedia because of this is not just.
Thanks, GerardM
Low Saxon covers a large variety of dialects, both in the Netherlands and in Germany. Insisting on a German-based orthograpy for all dialects is unrealistic. Therefore I agree with Gerard that if nds.wikipedia takes this step, there is a need for a separate nds-nl wikipedia.
Highjacking is the correct word for what has happened. It is an unnecessary act of intolerance, that unnecessary splits a community, united by a common language across different countries into two groups, living at the opposite sides of a national border. And now, for some obscure reason, one of these groups is denied the right to have its own wikipedia, so even splitting seems impossible.
Anton