Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New locale request: dsb-slepe

Thanks for the clarification. Might be good to update the Wikipedia article. 
IANAL (I am not a linguist) but it sounds like an interesting scientific 
question whether a dialect is a language- and this could be added to the 
Wikipedia site too.

Thanks for keeping Sorbian alive!

On 19.04.26 15:21, Michael Wolf wrote:
> 19.4.2026 14:40 hodź. Heiko Tietze napisa:
> > "The Schleifer dialect is mainly passed on orally and has no modern written 
> > language of its own." - How do you plan to proceed?
> Hello Heiko,
>
> thank you for your quick reply.
>
> No, that's not true anymore. Meanwhile the Schleifer dialect has a written 
> standard and literature. There is the society „Kólesko“ at Schleife which takes 
> care of the preservation of the dialect and has published books, including a 
> grammar of the dialect:
>
> https://kolesko.de/
>
> Yes, it's still a private initiative of mine but I am in contact with a Sorbian 
> woman from the society at Schleife and they already work with Firefox and 
> Thunderbird in the dialect of Schleife which I've already translated. And later, 
> if all three projects are official translation projects, I will inform the 
> Sorbian digitalization concept team so they won't be my private projects anymore.
>
> LibreOffice is fully translated into Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian (escept 
> some fresh strings), the other projects are for LibreOffice Help only. So I 
> think that I will have time enough to translate into the dialect of Schleife.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael

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