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[edit] Low Saxon Wikinews
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Low Saxon is a language without own vital media. There are no daily newspapers, no TV program, no radio station fully dedicated to the language. And no press agencies of course. Where Wikinews in other languages has massive competion by other media, Low Saxon Wikinews could be a real useful news source and bridge a market gap. Especially dedicated to news about the language, which are sparse in other non-Low Saxon media. --::Slomox:: >< 18:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments in favour
- Support. I support the creation of a Low Saxon Wikinews site, with the proviso that it be a shared German/Dutch effort. There are currently Dutch organisations which bring their news on their websites and German organisations which report on German developments, with very little sharing. A Low Saxon Wikinews site could be the place for both communities to have a peek at what's going on across the spectrum. The dialect of each news item can be as per the development it reports on, or else as per the contributor. Ni'jluuseger 18:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- Sehe der Wikipedia, es ist sehr aktiv, so eine Wikineus wird auch aktiv. Deutschlehrer 14:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments against
- It is a dialect, I don't believe this is a language to begin with. (Red4tribe 04:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC))
- There is no agreed upon distinction in linguistics between 'dialects' and 'languages'. Any variety of speech is just about as complex and complete as any other. And until fairly recently, most speakers of Low Saxon could only speak (their variety of) Low Saxon - not the national standard language. Would you have it that they were speaking 'a dialect' whereas people whose speech happened to coincide (more or less) with what was to become the standard language were speaking 'a language' all along?
- Ni'jluuseger 19:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
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