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Project is eligible. Please contribute to the test project (link below). For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 14:48, 30 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Isindebele (South Ndebele) is one of the small but official language of South Africa. It is the only remaining language without it own Wikipedia project. This makes finding and supporting the language project almost impossible for native speakers. It is my sincere belief that giving this language an official Wikipedia language project page, would spark activity for the language as was the case with Isixhosa Wikipedia project which was saved from closure and is today a thriving language project. --Thuvack (talk) 21:14, 18 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support As we can see, one of the official languages of South Africa, but why there's only pages that created in 2016, where are Ndebele users? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:39, 10 January 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support This language Wikipedia is long overdue. Wikicology (talk) 07:17, 19 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support After meeting the powerful cutie supporting this language, I definitely believe this project will have a good start! --Kritzolina (talk) 08:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Yes, yes! We should support new ideas, this can lead to new great projects. --May Hachem93 (talk) 13:48, 19 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
