User talk:Mahagaja/List of ISO 639-1 languages by genetic affiliation

Nice work!

This should be a page in the main space. Is it?

The name seems to conform to the conventions too.

I was looking for something like this nine months ago.

Tchuess, Alastair Haines 07:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Glad you like it! Mainspace has a List of ISO 639-1 codes, but it's alphabetical, not sorted genetically. I never put this into article space because it seems to be an indiscriminate collection of information. —Angr 13:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I copied the ethnologue database to Language families (Ethnologue) and got some criticism for it. Genetic relationships can be controversial. So long as they are sourced, and not presented as definitive, I think some information is better than none at all.
 * You look as though you have been wisely conservative in your presentation. Genetic relationship by age, is the natural ordering principle for languages I would have thought. As I said, I like your list. :) Alastair Haines 14:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry for nosing around your page, Angr, but I just found this and reckon it's a useful resource and well made. My only big criticism is that Guthrie zones aren't genetic by a long shot, so they don't necessarily belong in a page like this, at least without being qualified. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:48, 11 December 2015 (UTC)