be-tarask language subtag registration form
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Sat Mar 31 01:33:20 CEST 2007
Gerard,
Could you summarize this more clearly? There are too may "this
orthography"s here and I am not sure what you are saying.
At 01:28 +0200 2007-03-31, GerardM wrote:
>Hoi,
>On the Wikimedia Foundation there has been an extended politically
>oriented struggle where the proponents of this "orthography"
>prevented the official Belarus orthography from being used. This
>resulted in a request to get a new project for the official Belarus
>orthography.
>
>The Wikimedia Foundation language committee was asked to deal with
>this. This resulted in the renaming of what used to be the
><http://be.wikipedia.org/> be.wikipedia.org to
><http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org/> be-x-old.wikipedia.org. The
>official orthography was given the
><http://be.wikipedia.org/>be.wikipedia.org domain.
>
>Based on the information that was in front of us, we did not request
>a tag for this orthography because the original orthography that was
>in use has to have been infused with many new words in order to be
>usable in a modern setting. Also the information we had suggested
>that this "orthography" is a recent invention that is politically
>motivated. The notion that this is reflecting a historic orthography
>is imho a wrong.
>
>Given that the differences between the two orthographies are minor;
>less than the differences between British and American English, the
>language committee wants the two groups to work together in one
>project. This would prevent two biased projects. An other argument
>to deny a separate project is that the allocation of languages is
>done based on ISO-639 codes. This requested code does not qualify.
>
>Thanks,
> Gerard
>
>On 3/31/07, Michael Everson
><<mailto:everson at evertype.com>everson at evertype.com> wrote:
>
>Is there another orthography of Belarusian that we need to know about
>in order to evaluate this?
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