User:Chamdarae/wishlist

This is my wishlist for new wikipedias - it is not a list of requests, but rather a list of languages that I think are realistic candidates for having their own wikipedia, based on linguistic and geographical diversity, and the prospects for building a successful wikpedia. They are mostly from language families or regions of the world which already have successful wikipedias. I hope some languages on this list get their own wikipedias sometime this year, so I can update it.

Balochi (بلوچی - over 7 million speakers in region of Balochistan, including parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran)
Hiligaynon (Ilonggo - one of the main languages of the Philippines, with about 7 million first language speakers and millions of second language speakers)
Hmong (Hmoob Ndaub / Moo Ntsuab / Hmoo Dawb - a group of languages, but the main Hmong varieties are generally mutually intelligible; there are over 10 million speakers of Hmong-Mien languages, but no members of this family have wikipedias yet)
Minangkabau (Baso Minang - the most important language on Sumatra, with about 7 million speakers; widely used as a lingua franca)
Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski - Slavic language in eastern Germany; closely related Upper Sorbian created in October, 2006)

Created, previously on this list:

Lombard (created in October, 2005)
Udmurt (created in October, 2005)
Cantonese (created in March, 2006)
Ligurian (created in March, 2006)
Piedmontese (created in March, 2006)
Romany (created in March, 2006)
Tetum (created in March, 2006)
Austro-Bavarian (created in October, 2006)
Buryat (created in October, 2006)
Emilian-Romagnol (created in October, 2006)
Upper Sorbian (created October, 2006)
Wu (created October, 2006)
Kabyle (created May, 2007)