On 31 Jan 2018, at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
So... This raises several questions.
Really?
1. Should this language be added to translatewiki.net?
This was requested some time ago:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Add_support_for_Western_Armen… .
This means that it will be possible to translate MediaWiki into it.
Yes, certainly it should.
2. I couldn't find a request for a Western
Armenian Wikipedia, which is somewhat surprising :) . The closest thing I can find is
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Homshe… , which is
not the same thing. In any case, whenever such a request is made, will it be eligible?
It will be eligible. There are some articles in the current Armenian Wikipedia that are
marked as written in Western Armenian, and I would be expecting them to be migrated.
Homshetsi is evidently a dialect of Western Armenian with fewer than 1000 speakers. I do
not know anything more about it. It has no ISO code.
I am inclined to answer "yes" to both
questions, but with a caveat. I know very little about the Armenian language. My support
is based mainly on Michael's conclusions of the examination of the differences between
Eastern and Western varieties.
We showed lists and paradigms showing the linguistic differences.
However, the documents linked from the first email in
this thread mention the similarity of the situation with Montengrin, which the committee
seems not to support.
I don’t support it because it does not appear that Montenegrin differs from Serbian in any
significant way.
If we reject Montenegrin, but support Western
Armenian, we'll have to explain it.
Absolutely we do not have to do this. There is no dependency between them. None. And
Western Armenian is HUGELY different from Eastern Armenian. Please study the attached
which was part of our proposal for the language code.