This proposal has been approved. The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project.
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Congratulations, this Wiktionary has been approved. See request for creation at phab:T253029. It might take a couple of weeks before the wiki is created. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:35, 18 May 2020 (UTC) The Shan Wiktionary was created yesterday. Congratulations! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
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.
instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language, Tai languages, modern language /
Wikimedia language code (P424) = shn
writing system (P282) = Tai Pong alphabet
number of speakers (P1098) = 3,000,000
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Let me request for a Shan Wiktionary, seeing that the project already exists on Incubator.
The Shan language is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Burma. It is also spoken in pockets of Kachin State in Burma, in northern Thailand. It is the second-largest language in the Burma. As we have an experience on creation of the Shan Wikipedia, and with a vibrant community to boot, I think that the Shan Wiktionary is very much feasible.Saimawnkham (talk) 12:51, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Also if I created entries with books of the Bible in Shan, I would vote in favour of this Wiktionary, but don't give to know which are these books of the Bible, because only see squares, and just see visible characters in Mozilla Firefox.
I'm unclear on whether you can or cannot see the proper characters in Firefox, based on what you said above. Noto fonts presumably cover Shan, because I use that font and I see Shan text in the proper script in my browser (FF 76.0.1 for Ubuntu Linux). Additionally, you may find help (or maybe not) at Fonts, en:Shan language, en:Help:Multilingual support (Burmese), and perhaps en:Help:Multilingual support#Burmese. - dcljr (talk) 00:39, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
