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Requests for new languages (Wikipedia Balkan Romani)

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Contents 1 Balkan Romani Wikipedia 1.1 Arguments in favour 1.2 Arguments against 1.3 General discussion 2 Localisation update

Proposal summary
Language details: Balkan Romani (Balkan Romani, rmn ISO 639-3)
Users interested in forming an editing community: Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names. Tutunsuz (NP), see earlier.
Relevant pages: development wiki project, see also Requests for new languages/Wikisource Balkan Romani
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As per earlier discussion.

[edit] Arguments in favour

• none

[edit] Arguments against

• Contra The language has no literary tradition, it is not taught in Bulgaria (where a significant part of the population lives), I do not see any reason for splitting a Wikipedia in a certain dialect of the Romani language, since a Wikipedia in Romani already exists (does it?). It is unclear whether the script must be Cyrillic or Latin. Bogorm 10:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] General discussion

Balkan Romani is a classification of the Romani languages as poken in the Balkanese nations of former Yugoslavia, and also Greece, Turkey and Albania. This language is a classical language in Thrace,Turkey. --Tutunsuz 12:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC+2)

Thrace is splitted between three countries, only East Thrace is in Turkey. And as astonishingly as suspiciously you happened to skip Bulgaria, which has the biggest percentage of Gypsy population on the pæninsula. Bogorm 10:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Localisation update

• No localisation has so far been done on Betawiki... GerardM 20:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 0.00% of the most used MediaWiki messages have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks,