Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Tausug

submitted	verification	final decision

	This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval and will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval. A committee member provided the following comment: No problems with the eligibility here. --MF-W 21:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:

What	Value	Example / Explanation

Proposal
Language code	tsg (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Tausug or Sinug	Language name in English
Language name	Bahasa Sūg, بَهَسَ سُوگ	Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item	Q34142 - item has currently the following values: English label: Tausug native label (P1705): Bahasa Sūg instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, modern language / Bisayan Wikimedia language code (P424): tsg writing system (P282): number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 1,100,000	Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality	LTR for tsg-Latn; RTL for tsg-Arab	Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	tsg.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Wikipedya	"Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads	no	Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons. If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin"). Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
Optional settings
Project logo		This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	Asia/Manila	"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces		For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings		Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Proposal

Tausug is a langage spoken by 1 million people in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines and in Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, & Malaysia). It was the firmer Lingua Franca of the Sultanate of Sulu.--23prootie 01:57, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support--Aplikasi 08:36, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tausug is one of the major languages of the Philippines with one million speakers (about 900,000 speakers in the Philippines and about 100,000 in Indonesia and Malaysia --Harvzsf 05:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per above.--Tamara Ustinova 19:41, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. 1,1 million, that a big contributor base and even bigger readers' base. Let's give them a boost. Wikipedia helps fight illiteracy. Kubura 04:12, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support - decent speaker base, but sceptical of internet penetration in this region, also don't know what literacy rates are like in the language.-MacRusgail (talk) 16:08, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Johanry(talk) - This is a good opportunity especially for Tausug people who have difficulty of understanding either Tagalog or English. Johanry(talk) 14:17, 30 December 2018
Strong support Kunokuno (talk) 05:15, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly support.

I strongly support as there is there are many people who wanted to learn the language. It can also help the native speakers to strengthen their knowledge about the language.