[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

emijrp emijrp at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 09:32:48 UTC 2011


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language

"It is believed that 90% of the circa 7,000 languages currently spoken in
the world will have become extinct by 2050, as the world's language system
has reached a crisis and is dramatically restructuring."

How is Wikipedia going to affect this language disaster? WMF 2050 goals
ideas : ) ?

2011/7/11 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 21:28, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > * 270 Wikimedia languages (however, you would see below that the term
> > "language" is not quite precise)
>
> One note: there are 270 languages counting Simple English as a
> constructed/controlled language. If it isn't counted, there are 269
> languages.
>
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