Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Nawat
| submitted | verification | final decision |
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The language committee needs to verify the language is eligible to be approved. |
- The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
- The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
- The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:
| What | Value | Example / Explanation |
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| Proposal | ||
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| Language code | ppl (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Nawat | Language name in English |
| Language name | Nawat | Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ... |
| Language Wikidata item | Q36216 - item has currently the following values:
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Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed. |
| Directionality | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | ppl.wiktionary.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project name | Wikcionario | "Wiktionary" in your language |
| Project namespace | Wikcionario | usually the same as the project name |
| Project talk namespace | Wikcionario_discusión | "Wiktionary talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace) |
| Enable uploads | yes | Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons. If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin").
Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons. |
| Optional settings | ||
| Project logo | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). | |
| Default project timezone | America/El_Salvador | "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones) |
| Additional namespaces | For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk". | |
| Additional settings | Anything else that should be set | |
Proposal
[edit]Dear Language Committee and Wikimedia Community,
On behalf of the Wikimedistas Nahuas community from El Salvador, we formally submit this request for the review and approval of the Nawat Wiktionary (Wt/ppl), currently hosted in the Wikimedia Incubator.
Although this is a relatively new project, our community has been working tirelessly to document, preserve, and revitalize the Nawat language—a critically endangered indigenous language in El Salvador.
In this initial phase, thanks to the support of the Language Diversity Hub and local community initiatives, we achieved a major milestone: documenting and recording more than 2,421 structured entries. All high-quality audio recordings featuring native pronunciation were collected through field recording sessions in Santo Domingo de Guzmán directly with our respected elders (nantzin and tatzin), utilizing Lingua Libre and hosting them on Wikimedia Commons. We are currently adding these audio files to the Wiktionary entries, and we expect all recorded words to be fully linked in the Incubator by next week.
Each entry is carefully structured to include the Nawat lemma, part of speech, definition, bilingual translation (Spanish and English), contextual usage examples, and its corresponding audio recording.
We want to emphasize that our effort does not stop here. We are a highly organized, active, and committed language community. Earlier this year, we successfully launched the Nawat Wikipedia, and graduating our Wiktionary from the Incubator would mark another historic achievement for indigenous language revitalization in Latin America.
This is only the beginning: our long-term goal is to double our current number of entries and build the largest interactive open-knowledge repository for the Nawat language in history.
We sincerely thank the Language Committee for their time, guidance, and support in reviewing our progress and helping us transition Nawat Wiktionary into an official, independent Wikimedia project.
Sujsul payush / Thank you very much,
Wikimedistas Nahuas / Timumachtikan Nawat
El Salvador
--TimumachtikanNawat (talk) 19:05, 30 July 2026 (UTC)