Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Erzya

Erzya Wiktionary

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Requests for new languages (Wiktionary Erzya)

submitted verification final decision This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Proposal summary
Language details: Erzya (Эрзя, myv ISO 639-3) Editing community: Rueter (P), Erzianj jurnalist (N) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: development wiki project Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Erzya External links: Erzya Wikipedia Cultural portal Online newspaper Erzianj Mastor semi-monthly, online Erzianj pravda semi-weekly
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• Number of speakers: about 500 thousand
• Locations spoken: Russia: Bashkortostan, Buguruslan, Chuvashia, Mordovia, Penza, Samara, Tatarstan, Temnikov, Ulyanovsk; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Estonia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Ukraine; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan.
• This is a national language in Mordovia.
• The publication of dictionaries, as is the case with many other books of all genres are limited about 1000 per printing. This media would make it possible to provide a large readership with several aspects of the written language, i.e. orthographical variation, neologisms, older less-used words, synonymy, etymology, etc.

Arguments in favour

1. Support In 2002 the renowned Erzya writer Kuz'ma Abramov published the first Erzya-language dictionary "Валонь ёвтнема валкс" with well over six thousand entries. The manuscript materials from this dictionary have been granted as an open-axis basis for this type of project. Thanks. Rueter 07:03, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
2. SupportHi! like a native speaker will give voice to create. It will be a qualitative development of the Erzya language in the Internet - it is necessary for pupils, students, and those who want to teach Erzya language. I will help in the development of this project. I think that apart from the dictionary Abramov's, you can use and other open sources, for example the book "Syrnen chovolyat Eugene Chetvergov. Erzianj jurnalist 07:34, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
3. Support, per above--Andrijko Z. 19:58, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
4. Support A lot of native speakers. It has a great potential. --Metsavend 11:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

General discussion

• Note that for any subsequent project in a language, all the MediaWiki messages and the messages of extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation need to be translated at Translatewiki. амдф 12:10, 1 October 2010 (UTC)