[Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Sun May 22 13:20:55 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:47 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On 05/22/2011 01:37 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
> >> * Jin Chinese, 45M, China
> >> * Xiang Chinese, 36, China, incubator
> >> * Min Bei Chinese, 10.3M, China, incubator
> > 
> > Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their
> > speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia?
> 
> Chinese script is logo-syllabic. That means that other Chinese languages
> may be different from the standard one in syllabic and syntactic part.

Yea, but how much is any of these different? They may be practically the
same or possible to be added as a variant of Chinese.




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