Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: l10n Hello, I'm hereby requesting the creation of debian-l10n-sicil...@lists.debian.org . Here the technical details follow:
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Name: debian-l10n-sicilian
Rationale: it would serve as a basis for Sicilian (scn [0]) localization
efforts in Debian.
Sicilian [1] is regarded as a proper language, not as a dialect of
Italian, and it has an estimated speaking population of ~5M people
[2] (even more probably, since 5M is roughly the island's
population. Sicilian is also spoken by emigrants in foreign
countries). It itself has a number of dialects ([2] again), and is
widely spoken in southern Italy [3] (sorry labels in Italian :/).
Unfortunately, Sicilian isn't taught in schools/universities (here
only in specialized courses), but is very common as a speaking
language. People might have difficulties in writing it (since
writing it is difficult for Italian-grown people), and we will refer
to the grammatical rules used in Sicilian wikipedia, which seem the
most reasonable [4][5].
Short description: Sicilian localization
Long description: Sicilian localization issues within Debian
Category: Internationalization and Translations
Subscription Policy: open
Post Policy: open
Web Archive: yes
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Thank you,
David Paleino
[0] http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=scn
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language
[2] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=scn
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dialetti_italiani_meridionali_estremi.jpg
[4] http://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Grammatica
[5] http://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cumpenniu_stilisticu
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