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Languages with limited documentation
[edit]- Voting on: Two changes on the the criteria for inclusion page to address the difficulties in finding adequate source material to attest languages with limited documentation:
At Wiktionary:CFI#Attestation, replacement of
For terms in extinct languages: usage in at least one contemporaneous source. |
with
For terms in languages with limited documentation, usage or mention in at least one appropriate durably archived source. |
On the Wiktionary:CFI page, the addition of the following section (hyperlinked from the sentence above):
Languages with limited documentation
|
Examples of relevant languages and words
Usages in extinct languages such as the following would not be affected:
- Frankish: Talk:wardon
- Old Armenian as per Ancient Greek discussion; cf ասպակ (aspak), attested only once
Mentions such as the following would be allowed:
- Ancient Greek
- Latin: absisto, adamas - one mention in a dictionary without any citations of that form
- Old Armenian: մաթիլ (matʻil) - one mention as a gloss, explaining the meaning of another word
- Sanskrit - अथर्वाङ्गिरस, अहर्गण - currently cited with only one mention
The following endangered languages would be allowed under this proposal. Items 1 and 2 are courtesy of Metaknowledge, item 3 is courtesy of Ungoliant, and item 4 is courtesy of Xavier Barker:
- Krio: kushe
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2959: Parameter 1 is required.
- Bislama: ovaspen
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2959: Parameter 1 is required.
- Category:Hunsrik nouns
- Nauru Pacific Pidgin - a language in Nauru with about 8000 people documented in only one source
- Lushootseed: ʔux̌áx̌ƛʼil
- 1996 — ed. by Crisca Bierwert, Lushootseed Texts, pp. 124-125: not on Google at all or in the Lushootseed Dictionary by Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert
- ʔux̌áx̌ƛʼil - They screeched.
- Ditidaht: t’abuuk’ʷ
- 1987 — Allis Pakki Chipps-Sawyer, Standing on the Edge of Yesterday: A Dilemma of Oral Knowledge Survival in a West Coast Family [[1]], p. 106 (PDF page 118): not on Google at all even though the PDF is on the Internet
- t’abuuk’ʷ - Kingfisher
- Makah: ƛ̓ikatšiƛ
- 2002, Matthew Davidson, Studies in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar, page 430
- ƛ̓ikatšiƛ - start walking
The following languages are not endangered but have limited written documentation. Items 1 to 3 are courtesy of Metaknowledge and item 4 is courtesy of Christopher Weedal:
- Fiji Hindi: Μετάknowledge notes that the terms for Fiji Hindi already on Wiktionary would not likely pass the CFI
- Tok Pisin: kaukau
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2959: Parameter 1 is required.
- Pijin: sios
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2959: Parameter 1 is required.
- Zarma - a thesis on Zarma is expected in the near future by Christopher Weedall