Questions tagged [languages]
For questions related to language-related site proposals. These might include sites about languages, language-specific versions of sites about other topics, and potentially sites about language usage in general. (See also: the [tag:non-english] tag.)
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Will another proposal for Stack Overflow in another language be acceptable now?
I am considering creating a new proposal for Stack Overflow in Thai language but, from what I have done the research, this post is the most recent information I can find where it means that the system ...
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Why were sites in other languages accepted before?
A while back, a staff member posted this answer, saying that sites in other languages are no longer accepted. When
I contradicted the two points mentioned, the writer of the answer told me (and I ...
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Why was a proposal for a non-English site closed, based on a policy from 6 years ago?
Yesterday, some of us had an idea about a cooking site for non-English users. Although there is a site for English-speaking users about cooking, Spanish-speaking users can't use it, since the cultural ...
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Proposal: Telugu Stack Exchange
For those who don't know, Telugu is a language in India. It has 56 characters in its alphabet. There are a lot of Telugu speakers in India, and it's growing in America.
This would be a site discussing ...
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What happened to Stack Overflow in Turkish?
There are a few posts from many years ago saying that Stack Overflow in Turkish was on hold until after Stack Overflow in Portuguese was ironed out, and it seemed like Turkish was one of the next ...
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Would a general Languages.SE supersite (synchronized with the current language sites) be feasible?
If people are interested in this, please 🅼🅰🅺🅴 🅽🅾🅸🆂🅴; I suggest describing your interests and expertise in an answer: the proposal (once proposed) will be immediately closed if there's no pre-...
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Would a shared SE for Scandinavian languages make sense?
There are quite a few “X·ish language” sites online by now, and they seem to be really useful for learners to ask native speakers.
Each of the nordic countries is probably too small to have an own SE....
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A "translation exchange" site?
Sometimes, you find a complex piece of text in a language you don't speak - or do speak, but not well enough for poetry, or metered prose, or an archaic / high-brow dialect etc - or perhaps the ...
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Is anyone interested in creating a Q&A for Greek language & Usage? [duplicate]
I think that the Greek would make a good addition to the Stack Exchange culture.
In my opinion, Greek is a rich language and there are also some schools in various countries which teach Greek to ...
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Welsh Language / Cymraeg
I'd like to propose a new site for Welsh language and Culture.
There's a huge effort in Wales to promote use of the Welsh language (Cymraeg), with the aim of reaching 1,000,000 speakers by 2050.
As ...
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Would it be a better idea to propose "Indian Languages"?
I remember that there was a proposal like "Indian Languages" may be deleted due to inactivity. And there was a question like "support Indian Language proposal instead of initiating separate" which ...
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Scripts other than English
Suppose we are proposing a new language site. Would it be okay or even preferable to have scripts other than English? I think it would be better as it lead to more use of the language the site ...
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How would it be if a SE site is created on Bangla (=Bengali) language?
(Originally asked at SE Meta)
Bangla (Eng. Bengali) is a language common in Bangladesh and part of India (West Bengal) with a rich history of literature and cultural heritage.
How would it be; if ...
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Wouldn't a single location for questions on Germanic languages and dialects be more beneficial to scholars than individual websites?
I would like to propose an omnibus "Germanic Languages and Dialects" category. The category would have tags that can help scholars link specific Germanic languages, dialects, their grammar, syntax, ...
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Do programming languages have a place within Conlang discussion, and why or why not?
Proposal: Constructed languages
What sets programming languages apart from artificial ones? I feel like there are important connections here, but I can't put my finger on exactly what they might be. ...
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Should questions about Ukrainian written in Russian be allowed here?
Proposal: Ukrainian Language
Hear me out and just don't take this as trolling. This is a very subtle issue but I guess it's better to discuss here.
Let me start with some facts:
The thing is that ...
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Can we open proposals to complete the "Trilogy" sites in languages already having StackOverflow?
StackOveflow is doing well in different languages (Russian, Portuguese and Spanish, for example).
There are a large user base among these languages and I can see large room to complete the basic ...
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Should sites about a language be in that language? [duplicate]
Should sites about a language be written in that language? Let's say there's a site proposal about the Spanish language. Should the site proposal's description and example questions also be in that ...
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Is it still an accepted practice to create a different language version for an existing site?
It was done with StackOverflow (now Stack Overflow En Espanol exists, as Stack Overflow Em Portugues). Is it still considered an accepted practice or will it likely be closed (e.g. by moderation) if I ...
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Native language should be allow at least in chat groups [closed]
There are lots of developers from so many different countries, I am one of them from Gujarat, India.
I would like to propose for Gujarati Language which can be allow in
chat groups. As I am ...
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Are more basic Ukrainian questions allowed?
Proposal: Ukrainian Language
Stack Exchange sites generally don't allow simple questions that can be answered by "just googling it". But where there may be easily accessible answers available for ...
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How is this different from individual language sites?
Proposal: Language Learning
We already have plenty of sites for learning languages, like Spanish, English and Portuguese. Each of these is for its own language. What will this site do differently, ...
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What are the advantages of single language sites over collective ones?
It has already been asked at the current Lojban proposal, but not at the Esperanto and Constructed Languages proposals, why it would make more sense to have a SE site dedicated to this single ...
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Using Tags in Language Learning [closed]
Proposal: Language Learning
As far as I know, there are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. And since one language can't be learned directly without the help of other, and one can't ...
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es.stackoverflow.com is a working site, why this proposal isn't in beta status?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Spanish)
So, this is my question. Maybe it has a technical reason, that the language support somehow avoided a 100% area51-based site creation process?
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Language Communities and Translation Communities
I was unsure if I should ask this here or on meta, but here seems to fit better.
I've been in some of the Stack Exchange's Language Communities, and saw that many questions are being asked in English ...
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The "Stack Overflow in Spanish" Project is Underway!
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Spanish)
Work is beginning to create a Stack Overflow site in Spanish!
My name is JuanM and I am the community manager who will be responsible for this project. I ...
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Are recommendations for language learning resources on topic?
Will this site be strictly about the general principles and process of learning a new language or can it also suggest web/print resources for learning specific languages?
Proposal: Language Learning
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Latin Language Proposal: Beginners and experts?
Proposal: Latin Language
I'm curious as to how oriented these language exchanges are towards the newer and inceptivus (beginn[er][ing]) group that may ask questions as simple as, "How do I properly ...
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Hindi and Urdu Language
I propose that a new Stack Exchange website be created for Hindi and Urdu languages. Separate proposals for Hindi and Urdu languages have been made but both independently received very poor votes.
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Instead of creating many language specific sites, shouldn't we expand the multilingual features of the original one?
I'm not sure if this belongs here or into the mother meta as a feature request, if the latter is the case, please migrate.
There are a few proposed sites that are StackOverflow in a language other ...
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Pertinent quaestiōnēs linguā Latīnā? Eās ut nōn hortēmur?
Proposal: Latin Language
Or in English: Are questions in Latin on topic? Should we encourage that? And how about answers in Latin?
I'm currently imagining latin.stackexchange.com as having a similar ...
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Is this only about the Latin language or also about its contexts?
Proposal: Latin Language
Should this site be only about the Latin language, its grammar and its styles? Or are questions about its context also ontopic:
Latin literature (eg discussion of various ...
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What is required for a question in discuss to appear in multiple proposals?
Recently the "polish language" proposal was closed in the absence of the required support after a year.
Regarding the fact, that there are currently two another polish proposals (polish askubuntu and ...
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Stackoverflow in persian [duplicate]
As an stackoverflow user who are not native in english I see lots of questions in stackoverflow from new users that they cant say what they really want because of their poor english, and as a persian ...
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Is it possible to propose a new site in which the contents inside are other language such as Thai?
I'm a newbie of SE, and quite new to web programming. I am trying to create a new SE site where all contents are written in Thai. My initial plan for now is to create a Southeast Asain Language Q&...
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Proposal for a language community
I think that Malayalam Language needs a place here in SE
It is one of the prominent languages in India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam
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Sign Languages and Deaf Culture?
There should be Q&A for sign language students and educators, others that use sign languages in their professions, the Deaf, and the curious.
American Sign Language, the most internationally ...
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What language will be on topic?
Proposal: Dutch Language & Culture
Example questions both include English and Dutch questions. I don't think two languages should be allowed, since that would fragment the userbase. Allowing only ...
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is there a site dedicated to the tamazight language
i think that a site dedicated to the tamazight language (and berber languages in general) will be helpful as this branch of the afro-asiatic languages is a very important missed link that can even ...
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"SO in Language" proposals scope
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in Russian)
Shouldn't SO translations be mainly devoted to language- (country-) specific questions, for example:
Questions about APIs of local sites/services (ex. VK, Mail....
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Wise usage of automatic translators for faster achievement of result
We could use an automatic translator to translate most of UI elements: menus, headers and other "User Experience" things, and then correct the translations in such cases where the correction is needed....
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Does stackexchange support Arabic?
We are a lug that receives a lot of questions that needs to be answered and easily searched, our current medium doesn't support searching, thus it takes a lot of effort to either re-answer previously ...
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How are we going to tackle the problem caused by BIDI languages?
Since Persian is a right-to-left language and English is left-to-right, their combination either doesn't work or does not look good. What are you going to do about this issue?
Proposal: Persian ...
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Can language based Stack Overflow proposal regrouped the most popular stack exchange sites (SO, SU, SF...) using tags
There's many stack overflow languages based proposal on area51
Stack Overflow (in French)
Stack Overflow (in Persian)
Stack Overflow (in German)
Stack Overflow in Polish
Stack Overflow (in Chinese)
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Why not combine "English Language Learners" with EL&U?
Proposal: English Language Learners
It seems the concern here is creating a separate forum for folks to ask basic English questions, and I can't help but wonder... why? There's already a forum for ...
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Islam: Would foreign-language questions be permissible?
Proposal: Islam
Given that a large portion of the site's target demographic probably do not speak English as a first language, would questions/answers in other languages (e.g., Urdu, Hindi, Arabic) ...
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Are developers looking for information in French?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in French)
I find this proposal interesting but like many people I'm wondering if it's viable or not. I feel like to be viable, we need people looking for information in ...
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Will Stack Overflow in German (or language XX) ever reach beta?
Proposal: Stack Overflow (in German)
This proposal was created 9 month ago and it seems everything goes very slow. I'm following SO in German for ~3 month and I tend to say that it will never reach ...
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