User talk:Kalvis

Hi Kalvis! It's great to see you've started a Latgalian test-wiki. I hope soon there will be a Latgalian wikipedia (along with Samogitian). Good luck!

About the codes, 'bat' is the official code for 'Baltic (Other)' (see here). You should add a code for Latgalian, such as 'bat-ltg', as Zordsdavini suggested. This is the way that is recommended on the page for new requests, and it has been used for Voro (fiu-vro) and Aromanian (roa-rup). Hopefully in the future Latgalian and Samogitian will have their own ISO codes. --Chamdarae 16:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

There is a request form for ISO 639-2 codes here and a list of criteria. The main thing you need is evidence that one library (or other 'agency') has 50 documents in Latgalian. I don't know if they process requests quickly or not. Probably not, because they have to check the information.

ISO 639-3 is still very new... in fact I don't think it's official yet. The codes are based on Ethnologue, which lists Latgalian as a dialect of Latvian.

I don't really know how different Latgalian is from Latvian, but it seems to me to be closer in many ways to Lithuanian, but with strong recent influence from Latvian. Is that right? And it is regarded by many people as a separate language, even if Ethnologue don't treat it as such. The situation is similar to Voro and Samogitian. I think it's reasonable to call them languages, and say they should have wikipedias. --Chamdarae 18:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Labs, Kalvis! It would be better (I think) if You requested latgalians in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages

Arns Zordsdavini 10:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)