Requests for new languages/Wikinews Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikinews

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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Afrikaans)

submitted verification final decision Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy). (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Proposal summary
Language details: Afrikaans (Afrikaans, af ISO 639-1) Editing community: Vertaal na Afrikaans Community (N) Xethron (N) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: Wikipedia External links:
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• 15-23 million speakers (Over 7 million native)
• One of the official languages of South Africa
• Thousands of books are published in Afrikaans each year.
• The entire Bible was translated to Afrikaans in 1933.
• We have Afrikaans Newspapers, radio, television programs, and many more!
• Wikipedia is in Afrikaans.

Afrikaans is a very popular language in South Africa and we would love to be able to share news amongst ourselves in our home language. Afrikaans is fully developed and serves as a educational language, on both schooling and university level. We also have allot of Afrikaans news papers like the Beeld which flourish in our country.

Arguments in favour

• Support. --N KOzi^Talk 06:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support it is a language with many speakers so, in my opinion, there could be a lot of movement there. Thank you, --Patriot8790 10:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
• Strongly support, a lot of native speakers, official language in RSA, so this project should be useful for many people. --LexArt 08:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)