Talk:Alur language

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I'm really unexperienced at editing Wikipedia, but I am passionate about getting info out about the Alur language. If someone could please fix the nasal row in the pulmonic consonant table, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'll cite this stuff and add more when I have more time. - Wilhelm 161.13.115.5 (talk) 04:44, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 November 2017

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. Mahveotm (talk) 17:09, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alur dialect → Alur language – Scholars consider Alur a language, not a dialect. Marcutius (talk) 01:25, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). TonyBallioni (talk) 01:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Marcutius, opening this up for discussion as it might be controversial. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

According to various Wikipedia articles, Alur is a dialect of the Southern Luo language. — AjaxSmack 18:41, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Suppport. I don't know anything about the area, but a google books search for "Alur language" returns two orders of magnitude more hits than "Alur dialect", and "language" is the term used in the titles of the works in the bibliography available on glottolog. So, if there aren't any overriding cultural and socio-political considerations to the contrary, the article's title should be "Alur language". – Uanfala 20:40, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support. If you ask an alur-speaker what language they speak, they'll say "alur". Language survey professionals regard this as important. The other key question is "Who speaks your language best?" and that would also support this being a language, rather than a dialect. Mutual intelligibility is relatively unimportant; On the Germany-Netherlands border, German and Dutch are mutually intelligible, but they're still separate languages. Andrewa (talk) 08:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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