Category talk:Abenaki language

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Dear Wiktionary,

I teach economics at Kiuna Institution, a First Nations post-secondary college in Odanak, Qc. I asked my students to translate some economic terms in native languages such as Abenaki, Cree, Innu-Aitun, and Atikamekw. I would like to know if it is possible to start a wiktionary for each of these languages. Much of the data is still only available orally, but some dictionaries exist.

See innu-aimun dictionnary on the web.

I understand that Cree is already up and running on Wiktionary.

Thanks for your time,

CA Ramsay Montreal, Qc


 * You can request new language versions of Wiktionary (or any Wikimedia project) at Requests for new languages, but first read Language proposal policy. One of the requirements there is that "the proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a viable community and audience", which is probably not the case for Abenaki and may be difficult to achieve for Atikamekw. For the Cree Wiktionary, see http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/cr. However, it is not actually necessary to start new Wiktionaries using these languages as the interface language if your intent is simply to record the words and their English translations. Here at English Wiktionary, we accept all words in all languages, including the ones you mention: see Category:Abenaki language, Category:Cree language, and Category:Montagnais language. (We seem not to have any words in Atikamekw yet, but you can help us change that by adding some!) Certainly Wiktionaries in those languages are welcome, but it's a lot of work getting a new project started, so you and your coworkers may prefer to save time by listing the words you have here at English Wiktionary, adding to the words already listed in the categories I just mentioned. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. It does seem like a lot of work! I will certainly start with what is already up and running... I would also like to be able to add word translations to the french wiktionary, but these languages don't seem to be included in the french setup... in time!