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http://esamaad.blogspot.in/2012/01/blog-post_08.html

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.in/2011/05/bihari-wikipedia-is-actually-written-in.html

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.in/2008/01/maithili-language-and-mithilakshar.html

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2014/11/wikipedia-now-in-maithili.html


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Monday, May 09, 2011

The #Bihari #Wikipedia is actually written in #Bhojpuri


This is the kind of article that has many people's eyes glaze over. It is about standards, scientific documents and it is about languages most of my readers have never heard about. For the people that do speak one of the languages that are considered Bihari it is extremely relevant and it has implications for Wikipedia.

This is information provided by Umesh Mandal that explains about the "Bihari group of languages" in relation to the Maithili language:
Kellogg (1876/1893) and Hoernle (1880) regarded Maithili as a dialect of Eastern Hindi; Beames (1872/reprint 1966: 84-85), regarded Maithili as a dialect of Bengali, Grierson has done a great service to Maithili language, however, he erred when he gave a false notional term of "Bihari" language, after that western linguists started categorizing Maithili as a dialect of "Bihari" language; although there is nothing known as "Bihari Language" and both Maithili and Bhojpuri are spoken in Bihar (of India) as well as in Nepal.
Umesh is working on the localisation of MediaWiki for the Maithili language and as this language is currently in the Incubator, the language committee does its due diligence and tries to understand if Maithili can have a place in the Bihari Wikipedia. The information provided by Umesh makes it quite clear: "no".

This still leaves us with the misnomer that is the Bihari Wikipedia. Apparently the language used for the localisation and the articles is Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri has the ISO-639-3 code "bho".

Are you still following all this? Ok, there is one question I am not asking: How about the Kaithi script?
Thanks,
      GerardM
Posted by Gerard Meijssen at 4:17 pm


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Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Maithili language and the Mithilakshar script

Maithili is a language spoken in India and Nepal by some 24.797.582 people. It is an official language in the Indian state of Bihar and it may be used in education.

A request was made for a Wikipedia for Maithili, it conforms to the requirements so that is not a problem. What IS a problem is that Mithilakshar, the script used to write the Maithili language, is not yet part of Unicode. The script has not even been recognised in the ISO-15924 yet.

This is the second request for a Wikipedia where the script that is used to write a language presents a problem. For modern Maithili there is the option to write in the Devangari script.
Thanks,
GerardM
Posted by Gerard Meijssen at 10:32 am




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Thursday, November 06, 2014

#Wikipedia - Now in #Maithili


It is a happy occasion when a new Wikipedia is created. Today we may welcome the Maithili Wikipedia. The website has been created and all the content that is currently still in the Incubator needs to be migrated.

I wish the Maithili community well; I hope they will share with us in the sum of all available knowledge.
Thanks,
     GerardM
Posted by Gerard Meijssen at 8:22 am