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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Walter (talk | contribs) at 10:27, 2 June 2002 (Belorussian language not on the ISO 639 list). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I see Irish, but what about Scots Gaelic? --Dweir

  • If you feel the need to start such a page the ISO 639-1 code for Scots Gaelic is gd Eclecticology

Shouldn't this be using the 3-letter codes rather than 2-letter codes for the languages?

  • A look at the list will show that at this stage of things very few of the existing languages with two letter codes have Wikipedias started. The three letter codes are helpful when you have a large number of languages, and necessary if that number goes over 676. At the risk of seeming like a big language chauvinist, the languages which would require the use of three letter codes tend to have a very small number of literate native speakers. The critical mass of population needed to make a Wikipedia functional in those languages just isn't there. If the moving forces behind this project are pleasantly pleased enough to find a situation where the use of the three letter codes would be unavoidable, I'm confident that they would make the necessary accomodations. Eclecticology

Hey, how about a Toki Pona wikipedia? I'm sure Damian Yerrick would help run it... --Chuck Smith

Not for at least a few weeks, but perhaps once the language settles out. Heck, Christian Richard is about to change the words for 'it' and 'they'. Besides, what would be the two- or three-letter code for such a constructed pidgin? And with numerals of length O(n), how are we supposed to do year in review? --Damian Yerrick
Oh, that's an easy one: just give each year a name. Brion VIBBER, Friday, May 17, 2002
I asked Christian about the whole thing, and he responded: "crazy! / an encyclopedia is very unTP / TP is about modesty / not about hording millions of entries of knowledge" --Damian Yerrick

02/06/2002 In the list Complete list of non-English Wikipedias available is the entry Belorussian language - Belorussian language wiki: be . So the Language Code is be
But if you look at the list of codes http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm you see be is the code of the Breton language. Belorussian is not on this list. So what now ? giskart

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