This WikiProject aims primarily to provide a consistent treatment of each language on the Wikipedia. Many languages already have extensive pages, and the systematic information on those pages is not presented in a consistent way. The purpose of this WikiProject is to present that information consistently, and to ensure that each of the major areas is covered at least briefly for each language. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. However, try to stick to the format for the Infobox for each language. See the template for an example Infobox. The easiest way to get started writing for a language that doesn't already have an article or to convert an article to the WikiProject format is to start with the template. [edit] Related WikiProjects This WikiProject is a descendant of Wikipedia: WikiProject Linguistics. It has a descendant WikiProject of its own, Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages. [edit] Project volunteers If you'd like to help out, be contacted by others interested in this WikiProject's subject, and receive task assignments and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name here: - Gibmetal77: Native English, Spanish and Llanito, advanced French, and basic Maltese and Italian.
- RyGuy17
- Spacevezon-Indo-European (mainly Slavic, Germanic, Romance, Greek), phonology, orthography, Ugralic. Memorised the whole of the IPA (and can pronounce every symbol [excluding ones which have diacratics and epiglottal consonants])
- Ciacchi: Icelandic, Italian & Portuguese
- Node
- Nohat
- Sofa jazz man
- Danny
- Αδελφος English, Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea), and some Spanish
- Ling.Nut
- jeronim
- Tox
- Secretlondon
- ran
- Mark Dingemanse (though I must admit that most of my articles aren't laid out according to the language template)
- Mustafaa
- Ptcamn
- Marnen
- Garzo
- Abbruzzi
- Wikiacc
- Peter Isotalo: primarily Swedish
- Whimemsz
- IceKarma
- Pablo D. Flores
- Conrad Leviston
- millosh* (talk (sr:))
- Angr
- Benjamin
- Martin
- Aleksei
- moyogo
- newydd
- ntennis (mainly sign languages)
- The Great Gavini (uh, does British language (Celtic) count?)
- Tanzeel
- Dmscvan
- Gailtb
- Straughn Turkic and languages of the former USSR
- Zerida
- Enlil Ninlil English, German and Cantonese, also Indigenous Australian languages
- Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- Chris S. have done major edits to Tagalog & Kapampangan. Slowly working on other Philippine languages.
- Anupam (Hindi, Hindustani, and Urdu)
- Maunus
- Pruneautalk
- Djordje D. Bozovic
- Marialadouce
- A R King
- A12n 20:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC) (African languages) (though like Mark I haven't been following a template, yet)
- Geoking66
- Yupik (Mainly Sami languages, but also Coptic and Old Nubian)
- Surena (Iranian languages) 06:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Womtelo -- Languages of Melanesia
- User:WilliamThweatt -- Austronesian languages, Southeast Asian languages, Celtic languages, Slavic language
- Francisco Smith-- european languages particularly german, english and spanish
- N-true — mainly Caucasian languages and perhaps also Khoisan languages and/or some Amerindian ones...
- trwier - Mainly Caucasian languages, as well as the Algonquian language family.
- Geoking66
- Sborsody
- Alastair Haines 14:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Khanele (Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian)
- Neranei
- Ductape821
- *Kutaka(-lu) 20:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC) New Guinean and Australian languages, especially taxonomy and historical phonology.
- Michkalas
- Muckapædia 15e mai 2007, 23h49 (UTC+0900) :: mostly orthographies and Canadian languages and dialects.
- Sr13 Some French, very little Chinese and Hawaiian.
- MichelleG
- Moonbug
- Dan Parvaz - Semitic languages, Signed languages, Languages of the Middle East, Language and Gesture
- kk_loach
- Tea and crumpets
- Korenyuk — Українська, Закарпатський говір, Нохчийн, Davvisápmi, ქართული, Қазақша, bokmål, Wolof; Lakĥoṫiyapi, kainunkieli, Turkic languages, Mongolic languages and some others (the first eight being either my Mother tongues, my children's (with three adopted daughters) and my wife's or those spoken where I was born and where I live(d), plus special dedication to "Lakĥol") — as much as I would be able to, due to poor health reasons
- Jckrull
- Polylerus
- Æetlr Creejl 01:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- Francis Tyers ·
- Jsferreira - Caribbean languages (official, indigenous, creole, immigrant)
- Jangari - Australianist syntactician - non-pama-nyungan languages
- LiangHH - Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, German
- Landroving Linguist - Languages of Ethiopia
- Akerbeltz - Goidelic, Amerindian
- JWB (talk) 02:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- Robskin - Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, English, French, and my mother-tongue, Portuguese Robskin (talk) 05:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC).
- Aelffin (talk · contribs) - English, German, some Dutch, Frisian, Swedish, Icelandic, and other germanic languages.
- Taivo - Numic languages of Uto-Aztecan, phonologies of other languages
- Gr8opinionater
- W Tanoto - Indonesian and Javanese (both first language), english, french (both advance), italian, spanish, japanese, very basic chinese. Read Japanese kana script fluently, basic greek script
- Umofomia - Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
- Hakeem.gadi (talk) 11:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC). Arabic, Libyan Arabic, English, Japanese.
- Gimme danger (talk · contribs) - Standard Tibetan and related articles.
- Szfski (talk · contribs) - Semitic and Indo-European, especially Slavic and varieties of Arabic. Also dialects of American English.
- Danielaustinhall12 (Go Wolverines!) 20:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC) - understand Scots, know a little Middle English, understand some Spanish
- Alton (talk · contribs)
- Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 14:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC), native speker of Hindustani,Awadhi,Urdu,Hindi
- Hurmata
- Jomeara421 - Algonquian languages
- Dmitri Lytov - history of writing, theoretical linguistics, various languages, InterWiki, multilingual articles
- Widsith (talk) 07:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
- User:Coldipa - South Slavic languages
- User:Vinsfan368 Former Canadian, studying French
- C21K - mainly Kannada,Tulu & Konkani languages
- Anypodetos – mostly PIE
- G Purevdorj (talk · contribs) - mainly Mongolic languages
- User:Jed 20012
- Iudaeus (talk) 01:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC) - I speak English and Spanish but my main interest is in Ethiopian (Omotic espeically) languages.
- Tyciol (talk) 18:27, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
- Woollymammoth (talk · contribs) Woollymammoth (talk) 16:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC) - I am interested in all Indo-European languages, primarily Slavic languages, and historical linguistics.
- Virginal6-Iberian,Old Atlantic languages,Basque.History,Archeology.
- Rayizmi
- User:Auslli: Leonese language, Romance languages, European minority languages.
- User:Mysticienne French, Canadian French.
- VikSol
- DAFMM (talk English, German, French and Latin, April 2009.
- Gaidheal1
- Oashi (talk · contribs) Czech: native, Polish: second, native-like, Slovak: similar to native, English: advanced (FCE), Russian: moderate, passive (how to type it on my lat keaboard? ;) Franta Oashi (talk) 01:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
- User:VsevolodKrolikov Native British English, advanced Russian, intermediate (but improving) Japanese. University level foreign language teacher.
- User:Annihilan English: native, German: second, amateur, various others that I am not good at, but like.
- El estremeñu Spanish: native, German: amateur, English: amateur, Extremaduran: second. I know about Extremaduran language, Languages of Spain, Gazunese language, Romance languages...
- Mo-Al (talk) 23:23, 9 August 2009 (UTC) Afro-Asiatic languages (especially Berber languages, Semitic languages), general phonology
- Basawala (talk) 20:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Hindi, Urdu, other Indo-Aryan languages, some Turkic languages, other things herer and there.
- Île_flottante~Flotting island Native English, advanced french, intermediate German and very basic swedish.
- User:Shushu: Native Russian, Slavic languages, Russian language, Morphology, Germanic languages
[edit] Structure Most language articles should be on a page titled XXX language. Reasons for this recommendation: - Ambiguity. While some language have special forms that refer unambiguously to the language, English is inherently ambiguous about language names. Having a standard of "XXX language" ensures that it's always unambiguous. There is always the possibility of "XXX literature", "XXX grammar", but these cannot be referred to simply as "XXX", and so are not a reason for disambiguation.
- Precedent. This is how Encyclopædia Britannica and many other English-language encyclopedias name their articles.
- Please note that when there is nothing to disambiguate a language name from, such as Hindi, Esperanto or Inuktitut, there is no need for the "language". See Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Languages, both spoken and programming and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages) for the relevant naming policy.
Whether the varieties of Arabic and Chinese should be called "languages" or "dialects" continues to be a highly controversial issue. The current convention is: use NAME + Arabic for Arabic varieties (e.g. Egyptian Arabic), use NAME (linguistics) for Chinese varieties (e.g. Mandarin Chinese). Infoboxes are put at both Arabic and Chinese language and at their first-level subdivisions. Even in cases in which there is a consensus that varieties of a language have a dialect status, the number and divisions between such dialects are often vaguely-defined, and controversies exist among dialectologists over whether certain varieties should be treated in a unified way or are best understood as separate though related varieties. Separate articles should only be written on varieties (e.g., Estuary English) or related groups of varieties (e.g., Hispanic English) that have been well-enough studied by linguists that at least a minimal body of literature exists about that variety or group of varieties, as a distinct dialect or group of dialects. Phonological, morphosyntactic, or lexical variation that may be considered subdialectal should be noted as "differences within X dialect,", where X is a dialect as discussed in the relevant literature. Controversies over dialect status can be noted in articles as such, but should also be based on citable work. Names used to refer to that dialect in the title should be preferred over folk-linguistic terms (e.g., Inland North versus Midwestern Accent). [edit] Open tasks [edit] Articles to be created - I'm on the ball. Coming very soon. Szfski (talk) 08:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Got a good part of the article translated. More later Szfski (talk) 23:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Kalapuya
- Shoalwater
- Lingua Franca (language) (or perhaps putting the language at Lingua Franca and moving the current article elsewhere)
- I'll comment in a sub-bullet (feel free to move to the discussion page): I was looking for any mention of "language of wider communication" (LWC) on Wikipedia and did not find it. LWC is, as I understand it, pretty much the same idea as lingua france (concept). To be honest I don't know about the history of use of LWC rather than lingua franca, but had assumed it to be a recent coinage until just recently seeing it in an academic article published in 1962. It's an established term: Could it somehow be useful in splitting the Lingua Franca article (assuming I understand correctly that that is being discussed)? --A12n 12:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- Gorgotoqui
- Portugués oliventino: a dialect of Portuguese spoken in Olivenza (Spain)
[edit] Requests for expansion -
- I'll start working on this one. Mo-Al (talk) 05:19, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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- I can do some work on this one. Αδελφος 2:27, 16 November 2009
And everything in Category:Language stubs and its subcategories. Images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of languages. [edit] Requests for attention - Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Linguistics
- Category:Wikipedia articles with nonstandard pronunciation (Contain nonstandard pronunciation information which should be rewritten using the International Phonetic Alphabet.)
- Kabyle (Requested assistance in English grammar clarification, which I have done but do not mind if people review VelaenOscuridad 22:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC))
- Icelandic language (Needs general cleanup and expansion) Max Naylor 15:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
- (Sorry but I don't know where to put this, please move this to the appropriate place) - I noticed that some language articles provide no citations for the "number of speakers" in their infobox, and furthermore, that these numbers and the "language rank" usually contradict the page "List of languages by number of speakers", which itself provides citations. I'd just like to bring this to your attention, as I think many infoboxes probably provide uncited and innacurate info but I don't have the time or know-how to fix it. Althena (talk) 07:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Afrikaans needs attention. I've outlined some of the issues with it on the talk page there. Sectori (talk) 00:05, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- Illyrian language, Albanian language, Illyro-Roman, Daco-Roman, Thraco-Roman, Romanized Balkans. You are also hereby invited to contribute a paper to an international conference. :) Dc76\talk 19:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
- Isthmus Zapotec needs some wikifying and more content.
- Lebanese Arabic
- All languages. When translators find a version of the United States Constitution translated into their specialty language, I ask that they post a link on the page, United States Constitution, section 7.3 (translations).[[1]] Some translations are already available, but more will strengthen the usefulness of the page.Broadcaster101 (talk) 05:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Finno-Ugric languages needs a lot more citations
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