Category talk:Languages of Easter Island

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Not a sovereign country or anything, no need to keep this. There are millions of islands on the globe and they surely don't need their own categories. -- Liliana • 03:23, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

I wonder, though. Would an isolated land mass be more interesting in terms of what languages have lived on it than a small country like, say, Belize or Switzerland? (I'm using Belize as my example advisedly. It is, if I'm not mistaken, the only anglophone country in Central America. Likewise, Switzerland is, I think, the only country with Romansch. Despite all that, would Easter Island be more interesting?) Likewise, would a category for languages of the Hawaiian Islands (that is, Hawaii and Midway Island) be more interesting than a category for languages of Hawaii or Colorado? I'm not sure. I'm also not sure we should have any of these categories.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:46, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

I think something like Category:Languages of India is both useful and on topic. Well maybe on topic; perhaps Wikipedia should handle this sort of things. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:40, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

The thing about islands is that because they're isolated, they tend to have more distinct local languages. —CodeCat 21:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Easter Island is sparsely populated and way off the beaten path no matter which direction you're coming from. Basically you've got Spanish and Rapa Nui, with perhaps a smattering of French and English. Not much to categorize. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

• Kept by default for lack of further discussion --ElisaVan (talk) 18:07, 20 October 2013 (UTC)