Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Tunica

submitted	verification	final decision

	This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval and will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval.

The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:

What	Value	Example / Explanation

Proposal
Language code	tun (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Tunica	Language name in English
Language name	Luhchi Yoroni	Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item	Q56619 - item has currently the following values: English label: Tunica native label (P1705): instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, dead language, modern language, extinct language / Wikimedia language code (P424): writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098):	Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality	LTR	Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	tun.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Wikipedia	"Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads	no	Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons. If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin"). Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
Optional settings
Project logo		This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	North America/New Orleans	"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces		For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings		Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Proposal

Tunica is a Native American language that has received much revitalization effort in the past 60 years, beginning with linguist Mary Haas after the death of the last native speaker. The target of these ongoing revitalization efforts have largely been descendant communities that still claim Tunica as a heritage language. In the past few months, Tunica has moved from "Dormant" to "Awakening" on the Ethnologue language vitality scale. As this language is actively being revitalized in the community, efforts are also being made to find Tunica a spot in modernity . One of the ways of doing that is creating a web presence so that people can communicate and interact with the internet in their heritage language. One of first steps in this process has been to create Tunica youtube videos (including the song "Monster Mash" with Tunica lyrics). However, it is our hope to expand Tunica's presence on the web through both written and oral language. As part of this initiative, we will be writing and submitting articles (in Tunica) regarding aspects of the Tunica language and people. Topics will include the history of the language, the history of the people, the revitalization program and associated summer language camps, as well as well known historical figures in the Tunica community. By having this information available in Tunica, Tunica speakers (and members of the heritage language community) will be able to learn about their history directly in their own language without having to relay and understand it all through an English language lens.

--Tulanetunica (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Per Ethnologue: 32, all users. L1 users: No known L1 speakers, but emerging L2 speakers. The last known native speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant (aka Sam Young), died in 1948 (1964 M. Haas). L2 users: 32 (2017 J. Maxwell). Seems like somewhat premature for having a wiki. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]