Request of new variant subtag for kichwa (inside qu)

[mailler at phare.normalesup.org]

Hello,

Please find below a variant creation request for Kichwa.

I am available for any further question about the request, I subscribed to
the mailing-list so you don't need to Cc me on the messages. The main
point on this request is to be able to create a new wikipedia project in
this variant of the quechua language, which has official status in Ecuador
(see below).

With kind regards,

Sylvain Mailler

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
   1. Name of requester: Mailler Sylvain
   2. E-mail address of requester: mailler at phare.normalesup.org
   3. Record Requested:
      Type:Variant
      Subtag:kichwa
      Description:Shukllachishka kichwa (Kichwa Unificado (es) / Unified
kichwa (en)) is a set of spelling and grammar rules that applies to
all the regiolects of the quechua macrolanguage spoken in Ecuador.
      Prefix:qu
      Preferred-Value:
      Deprecated:
      Suppress-Script:
      Comments:The Unified kichwa is a normalized grammar and spelling
that intends to cover all the variants of quechua spoken in Ecuador.
It is normalized by Governmental institutions (e.g. National
direction of the bilingual education - DINEIB), and by ALKI
(Academia de la lengua kichwa). The kichwa language is co-official
in Ecuador (Spanish is the official language, kichwa and Shuar are
official languages "for intercultural communication" according to
Art. 2 of the current Constitution of Ecuador). An official Unified
Kichwa translation of the Constitution of Ecuador is published on
the website of the Parliament of Ecuador
(http://documentacion.asambleanacional.gov.ec/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/d67d4423-9f00-4f11-b9f4-479d90c5316b/constitucionkichwaI_FINAL.pdf).
Therefore, there is a system of bilingual education in all the
kichwa-speaking areas of the country, where the Unified Kichwa is
taught.
   4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
   5. Reference to published description
      of the language (book or article): Two main publications describe
the language :
- a spanish-kichwa diccionary
(http://www.dineib.gov.ec/_upload/diccionariokichwa.pdf)
- an extensive Grammar book that describe the rules of the language
(http://www.dineib.gov.ec/_upload/gramaticakichwafinal.pdf)
   6. Any other relevant information:
       Test wiki for Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator:
         http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Requests_for_starting_a_test#Kichwa_Wikipedia
         http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/qug/Kapak_panka
       Code at openoffice.org is qu-ec, used for spellchecker:
         http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC:LanguageList
         http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/KichwaSpellchecker
         http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?ctype=xml&id=99972