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I don't make the final decision, and what really matters is what gets built on the Incubator. But Amharic and Omoro are the official languages of Ethiopia, and looking at List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article, Amharic has 22 million speakers (The English Wikipedia says 60 million speakers.) and 16,000 articles, compared to Thai and Uzbek (its neighbors on the list sorted by number of speakers) have 180,000 and 329,000 articles. Omoro isn't listed on that page, for some reason, but List_of_Wikipedias gives it 2000 articles, and the English Wikipedia says it has 45 million speakers. Given that, the likelihood that an Ethiopian language with a quarter million speakers will even escape the Incubator seems pretty low.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:06, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Likewise you, I do not make a decision here, but rather providing this correction to ensure the linguistic and geopolitical context of Saho is accurately represented, rather than making a subjective decision.
Saho is primarily an Eritrean language and holds the status of one of the country's nine national languages. It is the second most widely spoken language in Eritrea, a nation with a population of approximately 3.5 million, making it a vital pillar of the country's national identity. While the Saho language is also spoken in the Tigray region of Ethiopia by the Irob (Orob) people, and probably that misguided you to compare with Oromo/Amharic, it is inaccurate to categorize it as an Ethiopian language or to compare its demographic scale directly with Oromo or Amharic—languages of a nation with a population exceeding 140 million.
I strongly support to be listed it here, and for information there is ever growing second generation Saaho Diasporic community who are doing an incredible work on this language making it one of the very few Cushitic Languages that has impressive NLP resources publicly available. Dr Jama Musse Jama (talk) 03:41, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Sadly it is very true (I do not need to see but I believe you), and this is happening to many languages, not only to the Eritrean/Ethiopian languages. All I wanted to highlight is the objection of the Saho as Ethiopian language for comparison on population, and I think we agree on that. Let us see if we can do better in Saho than other languages you have mentioned. I remember such reservations to the Somali Language when we started while back, and I am very happy to see today over 10K articles are there, and still growing. Thank you. Dr Jama Musse Jama (talk) 07:32, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
