Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages as taskforce?

I propose merging the inactive Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages into this project as a taskforce. It makes sense to have a division dedicated entirely to endangered languages as they are consistently undercovered as part of systemic bias. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 04:58, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

ditto with Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous languages of California 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 06:26, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Strong support to both. They are quite well suited topics to become task forces here. ~ oklopfer (💬) 15:06, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Support to both. I wonder if we might broaden the latter into just an Indigenous languages task force. ThaesOfereode (talk) 10:19, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@Oklopfer @ThaesOfereode I have now moved Endangered languages as a taskforce. I think more discussion is warranted on the Indigenous Californian wikiproject to determine its fate. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 04:00, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Article categorization based on language families?

Hi. I noticed, thanks to yesterday's catfishing, that there's some inconsistency with how articles for languages are categorized. For instance:

- Spanish language is under Category:West Iberian languages;

- Portuguese language is under Category:Galician-Portuguese (sub-category of West Iberian);

- English language is under both Category:Germanic languages and Category:Anglic languages (sub-sub-sub-category of Germanic).

Is there a convention here? I couldn't find anything on this talk page. Thanks!

PDF Origami (talk) 16:35, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Singlish's creole status

Singlish may either be a creole, or an indigenised variety of English (see world Englishes). The academic consensus is unclear: it linguistically resembles a creole, but did not develop from a pidgin. The only thing it can be definitively labelled as is a "contact language based on English".

In many well-established news sources, it is classified as a creole: 1 2 3 4 5 However, I'm not for the idea that these should be considered reliable, as they are writers that can only establish a common name, but creole is inherently a linguistics jargonistic term, so I'm inclined to only qualify linguists as reliable sources of information.

Glottolog does not classify Singlish under the creoles section. I've boldly removed Singlish as being a creole from Wikipedia, which lead to some implications like re-classification of Singlish in templates like 1 and 2 to becoming classified as "just another English variety". Hypnoticreflection (talk) 12:57, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Reefs – Santa Cruz languages#Requested move 23 July 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Reefs – Santa Cruz languages#Requested move 23 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. In solidarity, Destinyokhiria _{(talk / cont)} 06:44, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

RFC on Omniglot has been closed

The RFC about Omniglot on the reliable sources noticeboard that was notified earlier has been closed. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 16:55, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Itene language#Requested move 20 July 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Itene language#Requested move 20 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 15:57, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Ancient Cappadocian language: FA review

The article on the Ancient Cappadocian language is currently a Featured Article candidate and is under review. Comments by members of this Wikiproject would, naturally, be helpful in assessing its compliance with the FA criteria, including our basic policies such as WP:NOR, and WP:Notability. Borsoka (talk) 07:10, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

@Generalissima, Wugapodes, Phlsph7, A. Parrot, A455bcd9, PharyngealImplosive7, ThaesOfereode, Theleekycauldron, Airborne84, and ThaesOfereode: you've all done linguistics FAs: perhaps one of you would be willing to take a look at this? The issue is interpretation and evaluation of certain academic sources, which really needs a SME to offer an opinion. RoySmith (talk) 13:36, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

Overall verifiability concerns at 'Agreement in the English language'

Your feedback would be much appreciated at Talk:Agreement in the English language#Verifiability concerns and a possible TNT proposal. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 02:04, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Notification of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 August 29 § ISO 639:qah

This is a discussion in which the deletion of roughly 500 ISO code redirects is proposed. Currently they redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/List of ISO 639-3 language codes used locally by Linguist List. J947 ‡ ^edits 00:45, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Discussion on accuracy of widely used map

This discussion on the usage and accuracy of File:Celtic_expansion_in_Europe.svg may interest members of this WikiProject, it also has implications for other similar maps. Other voices would be appreciated.GastonN'estPasBon (talk) 15:35, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

FAC for Proto-Siouan language

Proto-Siouan language is currently a candidate at FAC and only has two reviews after almost a month. Anyone who is interested and willing to help review or comment on the article is encouraged to do so here. ThaesOfereode (talk) 19:18, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Please see: Two related discussions about "temporal clause"

• Talk:Latin conditional clauses#Requested move 14 September 2026
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 September 21#Temporal clause

These discussions have overlapping considerations and both would benefit from input from language and linguistics editors. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 20:19, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ladino § Requested move 18 September 2026

An editor has requested that Ladino be moved to Ladino (disambiguation), which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 11:35, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
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Requested move at Talk:Dzodinka language § Requested move 16 September 2026

An editor has requested that Dzodinka language be moved to Dzodinka, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 13:32, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
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Requested move at Talk:Korean Sign Language § Requested move 11 September 2026

An editor has requested that Korean Sign Language be moved to South Korean Sign Language, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. grapesurgeon (talk) 02:13, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
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Requested move at Talk:Mallorquín § Requested move 5 October 2026

An editor has requested that Mallorquín be moved to Mallorquín (horse), which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 11:54, 11 October 2026 (UTC)
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Are all languages notable?

Reposted from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Linguistics#Are_all_languages_notable? per suggestion there I tagged Baazəm language with {{notability}}, per my concerns at Template:Did you know nominations/Baazəm language due to very weak sourcing (Glottolog entry + what appears to be a self-published article by a reliable scholar). Comments appreciated either here or there on the suitability of this article for Wikipedia in general and Main Page (DYK) in particular. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:22, 17 October 2026 (UTC)