Reshat Sabiq's requests for two Tatar orthographic variants

Frank Ellermann nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Mon Nov 13 20:56:12 CET 2006


Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> they could only prove this based on the sources quoted with the
> Wikipedia article. When these sources are sufficient to convince
> you, the Wikipedia article is suffices.

The article and its references can be a moving target - one of the
uglier examples is the list of micronations -  and so it's better
to use the references directly, or a permalink to the relevant
version of the article.
 
> This is different from when a Wikipedia has been started. This
> might at some stage be of a sufficient size and consistency that
> you might consider this enough of a corpus to aid you in
> determining that a language or dialect exists.

Yes, e.g. there's a certain trend towards Latn in fy.wikipedia.org

Frank




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