User:SPQRobin/languages

This is a place for me to try to understand the varieties of a certain language or language family, along with their wikis.

ar: - Standard Arabic (MW locale; Arabic)

wp/ber -> a standardised form ("ber" is collective, not a macrolanguage!)

• Quechua I or Quechua B or Central Quechua or Waywash, spoken in Peru's central highlands and coast.
• Quechua II or Quechua A or Peripheral Quechua or Wanp'una, divided into
  • Yungay Quechua or Quechua II A, spoken in the northern mountains of Peru; the most widely spoken dialect is Cajamarca.
  • Northern Quechua or Quechua II B, spoken in Ecuador (Kichwa), northern Peru, and Colombia (Inga Kichwa) --> wp/qug
  • Southern Quechua or Quechua II C, spoken in Bolivia, southern Peru, Chile, and Argentina. -> qu.wikipedia.org

Kurdish has three standardized versions:

See also meta:Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Kurdish_2_Wikipedia

Many speakers of the Zaza–Gorani languages, particularly including Zazaki, Dimli, Gorani and Shabaki actually consider themselves as Kurds despite separate classification by various texts.

• Gorani (wp/hac)
• Zazaki (wp/zza) = macrolanguage (see also meta:Requests for comment/Zazaki wikipedia etc)
  • (diq.wikipedia.org)
  • wp/kiu

--> http://langconf2012.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Projects