Requests for new languages/Wikipedia West Flemish

West Flemish Wikipedia

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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 vls: 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 19:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Notes/comments
    • Number of speakers: app. 1 million
    • Locations spoken: southwesternmost part of the Netherlands, Belgian province of West-Vlaanderen, French Flanders
    • Related languages: Zealandic, Dutch
West Flemish is a west Low Franconian variety that stayed outside the Hollandic-Brabantic mainstream of the Dutch language for so long that it has become very archaic. Comprehension with Dutch is difficult, and today it is often considered a separate language. Ethnologues and ISO-639-3 both refer to it as Flemish/Vlaams, which is misleading: Vlaams is most often used as an umbrella name for all Dutch-like variants in northern Belgium. There is only an apparent lack of a language called East Flemish: it does exist, but East Flemish is still most often considered a Dutch dialect. Zealandic is a transitional language between West Flemish and Hollandic Dutch. Caesarion 11:45, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Please log in under your MetaWiki nikname, otherwise your vote will not be counted Kneiphof 10:12, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object. Wikipedia is not a dialect playground. This is a group of dialects, different from each other, a Wikipedia in this group of dialects (it's not a language) will result in chaos and will remain grounded. Let's concentrate on important issues instead. Gerrit 17:31, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • We already have wikipedia in Linburgish and, despite the fact that Limburgish consists of group of dialects, Limburgish wiki has not becomen chaotic playground at all. As far as the are peolpe that want to work for West Flemish wikipedia (and there are) I have no one reason to suppose that this wiki will remain grounded Kneiphof 18:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]