[Wikipedia-l] The Borders of Language Variety Tolerance

[Mark Williamson]

Hi Wouter,

Can you tell me, do you think Zeelandic is further or the same
distance linguistically from Dutch as Limburgish??

Mark

On 11/06/05, Wouter Steenbeek <musiqolog at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >We are currently inconsistent in our treatment of different linguistic
> >situations.  I do not think this inconsistency is good, but I also do
> >not think it is a grave crisis.  I am not even certain that consistency
> >is desirable -- there may not be a "one size fits all" solution to this
> >question.
> 
> There isn't any. Think about Norwegian (bokmaol and nynorsk), Swedish and
> Danish - they could easily be grouped as variants of one language,
> "Continental Nordic". Yet I think it would have been madness to grant them
> only one Wikipedia, certainly as all Scandinavian Wikipedias are among those
> with the best speakers-size comparision.
> 
> >
> >Are all people who could read Zeelandic and Town Frisian also people who
> >can read standard Dutch?  Then we don't *need* them for our primary
> >mission, but they would be a nice thing to have as well, if it makes
> >social sense for the community.  (Meaning, if there are enough people
> >who want to do it, etc.)
> 
> Yes, they all can, as they learn Dutch proper only at school (and Frisian,
> for the Town Frisian speakers). But they have a certain pride of their
> languages, especially the Zealandic speakers, and I am pretty sure I can get
> some willing contributors behind a Wikipedia. (I won't even request it if my
> quest for other contributors fails!)
> 
> Wouter
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