Portal talk:Language

* ... that before becoming the first director of the [[Dansk Sprognævn|Danish Language Council]], '''[[Sabine Kirchmeier]]''' was a local politician who reported [[Peter Brixtofte|the mayor]] to the police? 

* ... that the '''''[[Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language]]''''' was so large that it had to be printed in Italy?

* ... that '''''[[The Oceanic Languages]]''''' is so ubiquitous among scholars of the [[Oceanic languages]] that it is known simply as "the blue book"?

* ... that '''[[Alexina Kublu]]''', a linguist, translator, Languages Commissioner, and the first [[justice of the peace]] in Nunavut, is her grandmother's father and her daughter's son, as per the Inuit [[namesake]] tradition?

Dear Wikipedians working at the language portal,

have you heard of the "Power Language Index"?

I find it every interesting and ask myself if it meets the criteria for an article. What do you think?

As I'm not an expert in business English, I would be glad if someone else would be interested in writing an article.

Greetings -- PS2801 (talk) 20:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

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From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC) [reply ]

Portal:Language has been upgraded and expanded:

• Overhauled portal with modernized wiki markup using transclusion from articles to display content, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information.
• In its former state, the portal had five selected topic entries that were transcluded from Portal:Language/Selected topic and seven entries that were transcluded from Portal:Language/Selected language.
• In its present state, the Selected language section of the portal now has 31 entries, consisting of FA-class, GA-class and B-class articles.
• In its present state, the Selected topic section now has 23 entries, also consisting of a mix of FA-class, GA-class and B-class articles.
• The B-class articles added are high-quality articles that deal with their respective subject substantially and comprehensively. These articles also describe a major topic that is notable and highly pertinent within this portal's topical focus.
• Additional cleanup and layout changes have been performed.
• A new Associated Wikimedia section was added.
• The portal now presents a more comprehensive offering of language-based content compared to its earlier state.
• Of course, more expansion can occur.
• Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below.

– North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:36, 23 September 2019 (UTC) [reply ]

The following articles are presently being displayed in the portal using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:06, 14 February 2020 (UTC) [reply ]

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