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Requests for new languages (Wikisource Khmer)

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Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy).

Proposal summary
Language details: Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ, km ISO 639-1) Editing community: វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (PN) Pisethkem (N) And there are more native Khmer Wikipedians willing to help. Will update once I get confirmation on their participation. List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: ភាសាខ្មែរ Khmer Language External links: Khmer Wikipedia
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Khmer is the official language of Cambodia, where there are more than 12 million speakers. Khmer language is also spoken by other millions of speaking living in Vietnam, Thailand, Canada, Australia, USA and France. After the existence of Khmer Unicode font, resources written in Khmer language started to make presence on the Internet. And this also leaded a way to the creation of Khmer Wikipedia, in which I was actively involved in translating the interface into local Khmer language. Currently, there are more than 2000 articles and users in Khmer Wikipedia. Moreover, we are also expanding to other sister projects, which currently we have 2 - Wiktionary and Wikibooks.

And now, we feel that it's a good time to start working on Wikisource in Khmer language. One of the reasons is that, there is a wide range of Khmer literature to be preserved and made available to the public, and accessible for our Wiki community and the rest of the world. We need your support in making it true!!!

Arguments against

• Before a separate project is created, please start adding sources to Multilingual Wikisource, and add Khmer to the stats here.
  Also, I recommend writing a Wikipedia page about Khmer literature on Wikipedia, and organise for it to be translated to English/French/German. John Vandenberg 07:17, 13 September 2009 (UTC)