[Foundation-l] Arabic, a non native language

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
SIL both maintains the ISO-639-3 and Ethnologue. In Ethnologue there is no
such thing as a macro language, this is specific to the standard. Both in
the iSO-639-3 and Ethnologue the word "vernacular" is not used, asserting
that all Arabic languages are vernaculars is problematic.

As to stubbornly requiring a "native" requirement, this is something where
you will find that the langcom is not in agreement. The langcom works by
full consensus, there is disagreement on this. Personally I insist that it
is abundantly clear on a meta level that a language is indeed the language
that is being considered. This means that what is in essence a dead language
that has a modern usage is to be taggedd for exactly this. It is for this
same reason that requiring a localisation in such a language is imho a
fallacy.

Then again, we are rehashing things that have been said before.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Crazy Lover <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Etnologue classified Arabic as macrolanguage. not a single language: it's a
> group of language, form of a collection of several vernacular languages
> called "arabic"(no mutual intelligibles), and the Standard Arabic (continuer
> of classic arabic, no vernacular). We are talking about the last one.
>
> it is not comparable to spanish (a vernacular language that all people of
> hispanic countries understand since they are babies).
>
> And It is comparable to medieval latin because both are not vernacular, but
> are very useful as culture vehicle. the point is the absurd to insist in
> Native requirement. the reality is: native condition is not determinant, and
> not neccesary feature to express culture; the language prestigious is. and
> that do not mean i oppose native projects, no, i oppose the native
> requirement.
>
> it isn't acceptable the stubborness of langcom in not replace the "native"
> requirement for the "Fluent expression" one. result of community consense:
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Language_proposal_policy/Community_draft
>
>
>
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