<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My thanks to all who have responded so far.<div><br></div><div>In my e-mail, please note I should have said "a strong written history" instead of "a strong oral history."</div><div><br></div><div>There are many languages that lack a strong writing tradition, but it is very difficult to identify them. The Ethnologue might mention something about writing, but whether there is a "strong written history" is somewhat subjective, making it difficult to find a listing.</div><div><br></div><div>Benjamin Barrett</div><div>Seattle, WA</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The English Wiktionary seeks to list all words in all languages with English definitions, but the requirement for listing is three citations, a barrier impossible for many endangered languages. I have therefore proposed a vote on Wiktionary to loosen the citation requirement for endangered languages (<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Votes/2012-04/Languages_with_limited_documentation">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Votes/2012-04/Languages_with_limited_documentation</a>).*<div><div><br></div><div><div>Part of the proposal is to include languages not listed in the UNESCO Language Atlas (<a href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/">http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/</a>) as endangered but that still lack a strong oral history. The only language I have come up with so far is Tok Pisin. Can anyone provide other languages that would qualify for this? I would like to add them to the proposal (or rewrite to include them). Please respond off-list.</div><div><div><br></div><div>* My previous proposal failed, but I have taken many of the objections into consideration and think this has a good chance of passing. The actual vote should start in about a week; the voting requirement is basically a Wiktionary account with at least 50 edits at least one week in advance of the vote (<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Votes/2010-04/Voting_policy">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Votes/2010-04/Voting_policy</a>).</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Benjamin Barrett</div><div>Seattle, WA</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>