[edit] Gurenɛ Wikipedia
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- Language details: Gurenɛ (gurenɛ, gur ISO 639-3)
- Editing community: AganaNsiire, BONABOTO Ghana, BONABOTO UK
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Gurenɛ is a major language of northern Ghana and the predominant language of the Upper East Region of Ghana. It is also widely spoken in Burkina Faso and is mutually intelligible with other languages of the Gur group. It is spoken by about 1 million people and is includes the dialects Frafra, Nankanne and Nabit.
[edit] Arguments in favour
Wikipedia in Gurenɛ will open up a world of knowledge to the people of the Gurenɛ ethnicity It will also aid the educational efforts of the educational service in the area, which, following government policy has recently reintroduced the teaching of the local language in primary schools. It will enable elderly native speakers to contribute knowledge in a more formal and more enduring manner than traditional oral transmission. It will help preserve the language as speakers enter more and more into the era and usage of computers and digital information. It will enhance and support standardisation efforts underway in universities across the world. Resources (dictionary, glossary, textbooks) exists to aid translation. Formal bodies such as BONABOTO have indicated a willingness to contribute knowledge to the project. Wikipedia is ten years old, and thousands of years wise. I propose adding a few more grains of wisdom to the innumerable sands of time.
[edit] Arguments against
I have though hard, but I frankly know of none.
[edit] Other discussion
According to Ethnologue:
- 'gur' is the code of a language called "Farefare"
- "Gurenne" is
- one of the alternate names of Farefare
- one of the dialects of Farefare
I don't have a reason to object to have it called "Gurenne Wikipedia" or "Gurenɛ Wikipedia", since it is listed as one of the alternate names. However, it should be made clear whether this Wikipedia will be only for a particular dialect or for all varieties of Farefare. --Amir E. Aharoni 11:25, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
- Frankly, all the names, Farefare, Frafra, Gurenɛ, Gurennɛ, Gurenne, Gurene, even Grunɛ and Grunne, are used interchangeably, and that's due to a lack of standardisation, as far as I can tell. This Wikipedia will be for all varieties of Farefare. --AganaNsiire
