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I think we'd be better off widening the focus to all UK minority languages, as opposed to just indigenous ones. We were set-up to cover the current people of our geographic region, so since many non-indigenous languages have a considerably larger base than the indigenous ones, even given historical-cultural-preservation arguments in favour of particularly concentrating on indigenous languages it may perhaps be a little offensive for us to do so. --[[User:Cfp|Cfp]] 02:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC) | I think we'd be better off widening the focus to all UK minority languages, as opposed to just indigenous ones. We were set-up to cover the current people of our geographic region, so since many non-indigenous languages have a considerably larger base than the indigenous ones, even given historical-cultural-preservation arguments in favour of particularly concentrating on indigenous languages it may perhaps be a little offensive for us to do so. --[[User:Cfp|Cfp]] 02:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
:In practice a single initiative would focus just on one language at a time - say Welsh. Indigenous languages - Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Cornish and Manx - have funding support from the devolved administrations we could tap into. These days the government is actually discouraging immigrant language support - preferring english language teaching as a route to inclusion. A project supporting, for instance, French Wikipedia, would be better led by the French chapter, notwithstanding the 300,000 native French speakers in the UK. [[User:AndrewRT|AndrewRT]] 10:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC) | |||
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I think we'd be better off widening the focus to all UK minority languages, as opposed to just indigenous ones. We were set-up to cover the current people of our geographic region, so since many non-indigenous languages have a considerably larger base than the indigenous ones, even given historical-cultural-preservation arguments in favour of particularly concentrating on indigenous languages it may perhaps be a little offensive for us to do so. --Cfp 02:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- In practice a single initiative would focus just on one language at a time - say Welsh. Indigenous languages - Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Cornish and Manx - have funding support from the devolved administrations we could tap into. These days the government is actually discouraging immigrant language support - preferring english language teaching as a route to inclusion. A project supporting, for instance, French Wikipedia, would be better led by the French chapter, notwithstanding the 300,000 native French speakers in the UK. AndrewRT 10:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)