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Requests for new languages (Wikipedia Mizo)

Discussion verification final decision This language has been verified as eligible. Although the language is eligible for a project, the community still needs to meet some requirements described in the language proposal policy. In the meantime, you can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Contents 1 Mizo Wikipedia 1.1 Arguments in favour 1.2 Arguments against 1.3 Other discussion 1.4 Localisation update

Proposal summary
Language details: Mizo (mizo, lus 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. L Pachuau (NP)
Relevant pages: Mizo Wikipedia Development Project
External links: J.H. Lorrain's Mizo Online Dictionary
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Discuss

The Mizo language is an official language in Mizoram, known as the Lushai Hills District till 1954, and which is now a state in the Indian Union. It is also natively spoken in the Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, and Nagaland states of India, Chin State of Myanmar and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Mizo language is studied in all levels in all Schools of Mizoram State, upto Ph.D. degree in the Mizoram University and Manipur University.

The language of the Mizo comes under the Kuki-Chin branch of Tibeto-Burman. The numerous clans of the Mizo had respective dialects, amongst which the Lushai dialect, originally known as Duhlian or Lusei (by the Mizo themselves), was most common, and which subsequently became the official language of the State (Government of Mizoram) and the lingua franca of the Kuki-Chin people.

You may want to know more...

• Media in Mizoram
• Books published in Mizo
• Statistics Deptt: State Population

  Population (2001): 888,573; (2003) 921,970.

• Gov't. of Mizoram, Information and Public Relations

Arguments in favour

• &Y  Support: Native speakers of Mizo have the competency and willingness to contribute to this project in the long-term. Hence the Mizo language ought to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia. Magazines, dictionaries and grammar have been published in this language [1]. --Jose77 00:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

• &Y  Support --Chabi 13:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Arguments against

Other discussion

Localisation update

• Currently there is no localisation effort underway at translatewiki.net. A first project will only be granted when the most used messages are localised. When you update at translatewiki.net, you are likely to notice the newly localised messages the next day. Please ask for the addition of languages supported at translatewiki.net.. Thanks, GerardM 09:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)