It's just another one of these "these words don't exist in this language so
we're going to borrow all of them from Russian" projects, which they even state
on their page "Also because all words are not documented in kamassian, all missing
words we loaned from the russian language."
https://kamassian.webnode.fi/information/
That's not revitalizing a language, it's making a mockery of it. It's also the
MO used in all the other small Finno-Ugric language incubator projects (or borrowing words
from Finnish). Here's another one that he works on
(
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yrk/Main_Page). The front page is in Russian
except for a few words of Nenets.
The fact that they couldn't wait for even approval does not also bode well.
-K
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Subject: [Langcom] Wikipedia Kamassian
Here is an interesting request:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kamass…
They already created some pages on Incubator:
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/xas/%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%…
"The last native speaker of the Kamassian dialect, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989.
Kamassian was spoken in Russia, north of the Sayan Mountains, by Kamasins. There is an
attempted revival of Kamassian with sligthly less than 10 people involved" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamassian_language