[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 23:03:08 UTC 2005


abc_root wrote:

> I would like to request a new Wikipedia for classical Chinese or kanbun(
> 漢文/文言文) which is the standard form of Chinese for about two thousand
> years and was used throughout East Asia as the formal form of writing. Its
> importance in East Asia is like that of Latin in Europe. Now that
> Wikipedias are running or being started for many of the languages in East
> Asia, it seems that the language which is the backbone of these languages
> should also have a place. 


So would this be created before or after a Cantonese wikipedia?


- d.






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