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Mizo

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   02 October 2009 12:27

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Old Devonian

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   02 October 2009 12:53

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2. Antony Green (Antony D. Green)
   02 October 2009 19:05

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   Yep, definitely a conlang. For some reason, some people in Devon feel neglected because Cornwall gets a language of its own and they don't, so they made this one up.

Old Persian

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   02 October 2009 13:11

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Zaparoan

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   02 October 2009 13:40

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2. Antony D. Green (Antony D. Green)
   02 October 2009 20:50

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   Well, things can happen on April 1 that aren't April Fools, but unless there are native speakers willing to contribute, they don't qualify.

Northern Thai nod

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 10:26

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2. Michael Everson (Evertype)
   04 October 2009 13:45

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   Will it use Tai Tham script?

3. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 14:08

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4. Michael Everson (Evertype)
   04 October 2009 15:03

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   Yes

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   I know someone who is working on one.

   But could you answer my question?

5. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 15:21

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Min Nan in Hanji script

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 10:57

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2. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
   05 October 2009 11:42

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   Michael, may you confirm that the most of Taiwan population know both scripts? If so, then it may go to the same project.

Rajastani Wikibooks

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 12:01

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2. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
   05 October 2009 11:40

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   Maybe it has sense to have Wikibooks, Wikisource or so for macrolanguages in areas without good Internet access.

Hainanese

1. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   04 October 2009 12:38

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2. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
   05 October 2009 11:38

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   Which script they are willing to use? If Han, it may be reasonably considered as Cantonese; which means that they shouldn't get project even they have ISO-639-3 code.

3. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
   05 October 2009 11:44

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4. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
   05 October 2009 11:48

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   I just said that even they have a code, if it is written in Han, they shouldn't get a project because of similarity with Cantonese.