User:Siebrand/language check

Comparison between languages in Names.php and MessagesXx.php

305 languages have been defined in Names.php, but there are not 305 MessagesXx.php files. Why not? See below.

[edit] Local messages in Wikimedia, no language file

1. map-bms -
2. mo - Moldovan - Romanian in Cyrillic according to some
3. nrm - Narom a Malaysian language ? is this right ? Normandian is the WRONG code
4. om - Oromo (macro language)
5. pam - Pampangan
6. pih - Pitcairn-Norfolk
7. roa-tara
8. sg - Sango
9. si - Singhalese
10. sm - Samoan
11. st - Southern Sotho
12. to - Tongan
13. zu - Zoeloe

[edit] Alias, not a messages file

1. als: gsw
2. dk: da
3. nb: no
4. tp: tokipona (should be removed?)

[edit] No messages found in Wikipedia project

1. aa: nothing at all in aa.wp - Afar - closed Wikipedia
2. bxr: nothing at all in bxr.wp - Russia Buriat -
   • Also: macro language. In ISO 639-3 it is considered a macrolanguage. The individual languages within this macrolanguage are Chinese Buryat (65,000 speakers by Ethnologue [1]), Mongolian Buryat (64,900 [2]), Russian Buryat (318,000 [3]). bua: Buryat (generic)
3. ch: nothing at all in ch.wp - Chamorra
4. chy: nothing at all in chy.wp - Cherokee
5. cr: nothing at all in cr.wp. Also: Cree is a language group containing ~10 languages
6. gv: nothing at all in gv.wp - Manx
7. ha: nothing at all in ha.wp - Hausa
8. hil: no project (sub language of which project?) - Hiligaynon
9. ho: ho.wp closed. Nothing at all - Hiri Motu
10. hz: hz.wp closed. Nothing at all - Herero
11. ki: nothing at all in ki.wp - Gikuyu
12. kj: kj.wp closed. Nothing at all - Kwanyama
13. kr: kr.wp closed. Nothing at all - Kanuri (macro taal)
14. lzz: no project (incubator? conditional approval) - Laz
15. mh: nothing at all in mh.wp - Marshallese
16. mus: mus.wp closed. Nothing at all - Muskogee
17. ng: nothing at all in ng.wp - Ndonga
18. rn: nothing at all in rn.wp - Rundi
19. rw: nothing at all in rw.wp - Rwanda
20. simple: simple English (what to do with that? Nothing?) - Nothing seems good to me
21. tokipona/tp: no project (Wikia?) - Wikia ..
22. ts: nothing at all in ts.wp - Tsongo
23. tum: nothing at all in tum.wp - Tumbuka
24. tw: nothing at all in tw.wp - Twi
25. yo: nothing in yo.wp - Yoruba

[edit] Other

1. Klingon has a language file containing namespace names, but has a commented out language definition in Names.php
2. Tokipona excluded