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Latgalian Wikipedia

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Proposal summary
  • Language details: Latgalian (Latgaļu, bat-ltg [invented])
  • Editing community: incubator:Stiernīts (NP), incubator:Kalvis.apsitis, Zordsdavini
    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:
    latgola (promoting organization)
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  • Number of speakers: 150 000
  • Locations spoken: Latgale in the Republic of Latvia
  • Related languages: Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian

Support

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  1. Strong support. This language already have the test-wp [1] which was started long time ago (about year ago). None asked request for new wikipedia - at last they did. Latgalian language have writing history and have to be saved. I am bat-smg proposer Zordsdavini 09:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC) (bat-smg:user:Zordsdavini)[reply]
    There is now 79 articles in test-wp Zordsdavini 12:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Now there is 110 articles in Test-wp Zordsdavini 19:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Now there is 114 articles in Test-wp Zordsdavini 08:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Strong support. Latgalians are well-known nation in Siberia, they were exiled here, and I know several good latgalians, and believe to their statements that Latgalian is a separate language. --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 10:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support. -- Aleksis 12:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Strong support. (N) The Latgalian language IS a language (not just a variant, a piece of Latvian language). and it would be really great if there were a possibility to search information, to use Wikipedia also in my mothertongue thank You. 193.219.190.189 18:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC) 193.219.190.189 19:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support.--Ottorahn 20:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support.--bat-smg:User:Rtz 14:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support.--88.118.15.235 11:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support.--bat-smg:User:Algėrds
  9. Support Active test wiki. Kneiphof 12:47, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support.--bat-smg:User:Tadas12
  11. Support Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 18:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC). We have Samogitian, why not Latgalian.[reply]
  12. Support. Yes, why not Latgalian too! -- MyMetaWikimedia 22:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Strong support. (N) -- Veigule 05:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC) This is a significant and special language. Even the Bible has been translated into Latgalian![reply]
  14. Strong support. -- Nieks 13:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support -- "separate language" or not: it's a living written language and that's what counts. Fransvannes 09:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Strong support. (N) -- Saprge 13:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Strong support. (N) -- Seilkalnits 14:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  18. SUPPORT -- Rtz 20:14 / 2006 - 10 - 25
  19. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Aviātors 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Feens 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Strong support. -- lv:User:Tail 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Garais 20:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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