No, yes, yes.
But then, the same is true of mowp -- regardless of whether or not you consider Moldovan to be a dialect of Romanian, it undeniably "exists", and it is undeniable that some people write it in Cyrillic -- thus, it is a real language which is used on mowp, one which was not "invented" but which is found in books written by people for whom it was the native language and has evolved over the centuries from another natural language, Latin, regardless of whether you call the language "Romanian written in Cyrillic" or "Moldavian".
And obviously, some people would find it useful, namely those people whose primary or possibly even only script is Cyrillic. In addition to the Moldovan population of Transnistria, groups who can be considered to use Cyrillic in some significant capacity include the Moldovan communities in Ukraine and Russia, most of whom emigrated before Latin was made official, although it's probable that the majority would use Latin nowadays anyhow.
Some people have raised the issue that there is low internet access to people who write this language in Cyrillic. That is certainly true. Internet access is poor. But the same is true for Bambara, or Yoruba, or Fulfulde, and yet we are building Wikipedias for them. The hope is that someday they will have a better infrastructure, or that perhaps they can be distributed in print format.
Mark
On 18/03/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
On 18/03/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Gerard, you forgot an important thing of this affair: NO MOLDOVANS requested or wanted this Wikipedia.
We have *no* Transnistrian Moldovan contributors who want to write a wikipedia in Cyrillic alphabet.
Its only supporters are Node_ue (the kid in Arizona who barely speaks the language) and a few Russians who support it for ideological/political reasons and who can't contribute anyway, as they don't know the language.
There are no newspapers, no journals, no magazines, no books currently published in Romanian Cyrillic in Transnistria. The children use decades old schoolbooks from the time of the Soviet Union.
Virtually everyone there would like to switch the education system to the Latin alphabet, but dissent is not something easy to do in a totalitarian regime: there are some Romanian/Moldovan Transnistrians in prison since 1991 for political dissent.
So, I'd say to close it now, not because of political reasons, but for the simple fact there are not enough people to contribute to it.
If that's your reason, we should probably close gotwiki as well. Perhaps gvwiki.
Has anyone apart from yourself and a few (insert nation here) nationalists contributed to these? Are they real langauges? Would any real people find them useful?
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