Category talk:Jewish languages

Deletion debate

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Category:Jewish languages

Do we categorize languages by religion now? Where's Category:Christian languages, Category:Muslim languages, Category:Hindu languages, Category:Buddhist languages? -- Prince Kassad 21:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

I would agree that a category may be a bit overboard, but there is merit in it. Jews have a history of developing their own dialects from the existing language of the areas they lived in. You can't deny that Yiddish and Ladino developed within the Jewish community of their respective parent languages. The same can't be said for any of those other religions. —CodeCat 21:59, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Keep -ish per CodeCat. (I realize that CodeCat isn't voting "keep", but I'm voting "keep" for the reasons that (s)he mentions.) I say "-ish" because I think this would make more sense as a topical category, containing such entries as [[Yiddish]] and [[Ladino]] and [[Judeo-Tajik]]; but this approach seems to be the usual way we do language-classification categories, so *shrug*. —Ruakh_TALK 22:05, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Reluctant delete, I don't like the idea of non-linguistic categories in our non-topical category tree. Once you start doing that, almost anything can be justified. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:21, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, we've already started doing that; see e.g. Category:Languages of Hawaii and Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others/Archives/2007 no consensus#Category:Languages of the United States Virgin Islands. But if you agree with me that these sorts of language-classification categories should be changed to topical categories, then we should start a BP discussion and/or vote for that. —Ruakh_TALK 23:12, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Kept for no consensus. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:07, 28 March 2012 (UTC)