Saturday, November 24, 2007

Bikol Wikipedia is now open

Mga Kahimanwa kong Bikolano ~

The Bikol Wikipedia is now finally open.

http://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangenot_na_Pahina

This is for, more or less, the Naga-Legazpi Standard variety (aka Northern Bikol or Bikol Central). A proposal has been submitted to start a Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia, but it looks like a long shot for now. The Rinconada incubator is at http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/bto .

There are now Wikipedias in EIGHT different Philippine languages. In addition to Bikol, they are Cebuano, Ilokano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Waray-Waray, and ZamboangueƱo (Chavacano).

I'm quite surprised that the Hiligaynon and the Kinaray-a Wikipedias are still on the back burner. They are "conditionally approved" - meaning, there are some criteria that still need to be met.

Anyway, spread the word.

5 comments:

Richard said...

Hey, why dont you comment on the Tonton, Benjo videos. They are parodies of the movies Troy and 300 in Hiligaynon. They are quite funny. Here's a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SVnWcMjzrg.

thnidu said...

After seeing the header of your blog -- "... All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family...." -- I was surprised to find that "ZamboangueƱo (Chavacano)" is a Spanish-based Creole.

Christopher Sundita said...

Yep, it is. But it technically isn't Malayo-Polynesian. I should say "almost all..." lol

--Chris

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I've never even heard of Bikol...I feel kinda ignorant (LOL). This is fascinating stuff...I have so much still to learn.

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