Talk:Shempire language

Merge
The line "It is not clear how distinct it is from the related Supyire language of Mali" combined with the stub-ness and the lack of sources suggests that a merge would be appropriate until a more fleshed out sourced article can be uploaded.Pascal (talk) 22:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I reverted because I couldn't find the discussion. This is the wrong talk page.
 * Merging would mean that they're the same language. Do you have a source that they are? Otherwise it would be OR. — kwami (talk) 02:40, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * My worry is that there aren't any sources given for why it is a separate language, or even for whether it exists or not. The null hypothesis here should be non-inclusion or merging into an actual recognised language. If it's not clear how it is distinct from the Supyire language, that's the same as saying that there is little evidence that it is a language in its own right, which would therefore render it unworthy of its own article. The wording of the article itself demands that at least.
 * My suggestion is not that they're the same language (I have no idea, I'm not a linguistics expert) but that the topic presented here in stub form could more easily and economically be included elsewhere. You can always revive the article for the separate language if you can source it. Pascal (talk) 08:16, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, it's been assigned an ISO code as a separate language. The same org. assigning it the status as a distinct language then says that they can't be sure they got it right. It would be better if we had research into the question, but evidently SIL was not able to find any. I think it would be more appropriate to delete it as unverifiable than to merge it. — kwami (talk) 16:56, 27 October 2011 (UTC)