Help with Proto categories/templates

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Can I give suggestions?

For the classification of Austronesian languages, refer to User:Liliana-60/Austronesian classification.

Liliana •‎16:44, 10 July 2012

Sure, suggestions are welcome.

I'm sorry, but I think I'm missing something? I can't seem to see where "Malayic languages" fits in. Is it supposed to be somewhere within Austronesian?

Also, another slightly problematic case (for me at least) I came across: We have some entries listing "Iberian" in their etymologies. Now clearly Iberian was an existing language in the past according to WP, but we have no lang cat for it yet. We do however have {{xib}} to represent it. The problem I see is that on WP it's categorised both as an "unclassified language of Europe" and a "Paleo-Iberian" language. So what should we, Wiktionary, do? Is Paleo-Iberian languages category we should have?

50 Xylophone Players talk‎19:04, 10 July 2012

Paleo-Iberian isn't really a language family, it just means 'pre-indo-european language of Iberia'. It is probably best to use qfa-und or qfa-iso as the family.

—CodeCat‎20:16, 10 July 2012

Ok, I've now created Category:Iberian language and the templates needed to back it up. I'm not so sure it's perfect though; I listed the script as Ibrn(Iberian) and made those templates, but if you look at wikipedia you can see there were like 3 writing systems. There was North and South Iberian (which actually, if I read it right, were two different reading systems of one script) and one other script...Greco-...something.

User: PalkiaX50 talk to meh‎21:40, 10 July 2012
 
 
 
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