[Foundation-l] Allemanic and Albanian - conditional approval for Gheg

[Thomas Goldammer]

Hoi,

I fully support that idea to move als.projects to gsw.projects. "als"
is the code for Tosk, and should not be used for other languages. gsw
is indeed the correct ISO-639-3 code for what we call Alemannisch. It
should not be confused with "Alemannic" which describes the whole
group of languages shown in Ethnologue. Alemannic proper is the
language called Schwyzerdüütsch in Ethnologue and in colloquial
German.

Best regards,
Thomas.
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2008/1/4, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
> Hoi,
> Currently the Allemannic Wikipedia is known under the name als.wikipedia.org.
> This code is wrong as the code is reserved for Tosk, the main Albanian
> language. We are about to give Gheg, another Albanian language conditional
> approval. As it will be hard to explain to some why we give Tosk conditional
> approval, it is decidedly awkward that Allemanic is using the wrong code.
>
> I want to propose that the Allemanic Wikipedia is renamed to
> gsw.wikipedia.org and thereby associate the language with the correct
> ISO-639 code. The rename is opposed by people in the Allemanic Wikipedia
> because they do not agree with how their language is perceived.
> However, gsw<http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw>has
> Alemannisch as a synonym for Schwyzerdütsch and it is therefore
> obvious
> that the same language is meant.
>
> Given that there was no contention in the language committee, the request
> for a Gheg Wikipedia is given conditional approval.
>
> Thanks,
>      GerardM