[Wikipedia-l] starting a new language

[Zordsdavini iz Litvy]

latgalian has long tradition of writing system. It was in 1918-1944 second
official language. Considering of dialect status is political. And there are
very active people which are working on latgalian language life. It's
dialect like neopolitanian or venecian. We say it's the language.

Arns

2006/10/17, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> Hoi,
> The code bat is a "collective code" for Baltic (other). Latgalian however
> is
> considered a dialect of Latvian and therefore it is not "other".
>
> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lav
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=bat
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
> On 10/17/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/17/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hoi,
> > > According to Ethnologue Latgalian is a dialect of Latvian. From my
> point
> > of
> > > view, there is not even a proposed code to be used for your proposed
> > > Wikipedia that would be acceptable. Acceptable would be something like
> > > "lv-latg" or "lav-latg" ..
> >
> > There's a test wiki at http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/ltg
> > The code bat-ltv has been suggested.
> >
> > Angela
> >
> > --
> > Angela Beesley
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