Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Lak

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Lak Wikipedia

submitted	verification	final decision

	This proposal has been approved. The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project. The closing committee member provided the following comment: The requested project was created at lbe: at an indeterminate date. Note that this request was approved before the implementation of the standardised Language proposal policy, and should not be used as a model for future requests. Shanel 19:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal summary
Language details: Lak (Лакку, lbe ISO 639-3) Editing community: Slavik IVANOV (P), Amina Al Gazi-Gumuki (N), Рузанна (N) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: Test project External links: Britannica, Ethnologue, Writing Lak.
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Language and code: en:Lak language, covered by the general cau-code in ISO-639-2; ISO-639-3: lbe. One of the six most used languages of Daghestan. Lakians originally live in the highlands of Dagestan and are one of the most outstanding historical nations of Caucasus with their exclusive culture and language (more info www.lakia.net, http:lakia.fastbb.ru).The language refers to the iberian- nakh lahguages group of the Caucasian family of languages and has its press (newspaper "Ilchi", info in Russian and some smaller newspapers in the districts with Lak majority) and national theatre.
Location(s) spoken: Daghestan and larger cities of ex-USSR (Baku, Tashkent, Moscow, etc.).
Proposed domain: lbe.wikipedia.org
Language file: preferably Russian, not English, because most Lak speakers can read Russian well.
Writing system: Cyrillic with additional sign "en:palochka".

Notes/comments:

The idea of Lak Wikipedia has found interest in a Lak forum, where I have proposed it. There is much hope that Lak wikipedia will start growing immediately after its creation unlike some other Caucasian wikipedias which were created long ago and still lack users. - Slavik IVANOV 07:26, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I moved this request here from the subpage for former USSR languages. Arbeo 20:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Taichi - (あ！) 08:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Slavik IVANOV, are you ready to contribute for wiki in this language or do you know people ready to do so? I would support this wiki, but only if there will be potential contributors Kneiphof 13:51, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Slavik, you should more actively seek for native people support on your forum --Calmouk 69.141.175.252 21:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, please make them all come here ;-) Arbeo 19:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is not an easy task, you know; they say that they can't vote, can't register and what not... :( I have reminded them once more, let's hope. - Slavik IVANOV 22:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Amina Al Gazi-Gumuki is a native speaker from the Lak forum. - Slavik IVANOV 18:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Belgian man (nl na en) 16:41, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dinsdagskind 12:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Khoikhoi
Support nl:Boudewijn Idema , 13:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Support. Zordsdavini 08:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Node ue 08:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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