[Wikipedia-l] Re: About a new language...
Rick Boatright
boatright at cjnetworks.com
Tue Jul 6 17:14:58 UTC 2004
Of course it has an ISO Language code... SHU...
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SHU
But I have no idea where the cyrillic characters part came from. I can
find no information ANYWHERE that suggests there are arabic dialects
written in cyrillic. I smell a spoof.
Rick
Timwi wrote:
> Desmond Tutu wrote:
>
>> I write to you because I think it would be important to make another
>> translation of Wikipedia. I would like to make a translation in Chadian.
>
>
> As far as my research indicates, Chadian is a dialect of Arabic. Do
> you think it's worth having a whole new Wikipedia in Chadian Arabic?
>
> It also doesn't seem to have an ISO language code; Arabic is 'ar', and
> the country code for Chad is 'td', so would that make it
> http://ar-td.wikipedia.org/?
>
> Timwi
>
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