Requested at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2016/02#New_language
Language code: nys
Name: Noongar (variations on the name exist: the English Wikipedia uses 'Nyungar', ISO 639-3 and Wiktionary use 'Nyunga')
Script: Latin
Used by: Noongar people in Western Australia
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Hoi,
The Wikipedia article has it as a macro language and that makes it
problematic.
Thanks,
GerardM
@GerardM: could you explain what this means? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyungar_language doesn't say anything about macro; do you mean that it's composed of multiple dialects?
Hoi,
ISO 639-3 is about languages not dialects. They all have their own
ISO-639-3 code.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hoi,
Exactly and according to the ISO-638-3 Noongar is a macro dialects and what
you call dialects are languages.
Thanks,
GerardM
but Noongar isnt a macrolanguage, its defined as an individual language see http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=nys
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639_macrolanguage
@GerardM, "nys" is not a macro-language according to the SIL, and we follow the standards (as you so often insist yourself). So this is OK, like I said before.
Hoi,
The Wikipedia article says different. Indeed Ethnologue is leading.. By the
way these others in the article are not dialects. They may be added as well
when there is a need.
Thanks,
GerardM
The way it's been explained to me (by people who speak Noongar) is that the dialects are more like regional accents, with some particular words and usages that are unique to themselves but are still quite often understood by the others. So I'm not sure they'd be called separate languages. However, I guess it'd be cool to have labels in Wikidata in all possible, so maybe it's best to add all seven:
xgg – Goreng
xrg – Minang (Mirnong)
xbp – Bibbulman (Pipelman)
wxw – Wardandi
pnj – Pinjarup
xwj – Wajuk (Whadjuk)
Change 315912 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jon Harald Søby):
Adding language name configuration for Wikidata