Talk:Chenoua language

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Chenoua language was a good article, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Delisted version: September 19, 2006

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This article is about a person, place, or concept whose name is originally rendered in the Berber script; however, the article does not have that version of its name in the lead paragraph. Anyone who is knowledgeable enough with the original language is invited to assist in adding the Berber script.

[edit] Delisted GA

Article has but a single source listed at the bottom, which is not in the English language, and thusly would be extremely difficult to verify. But anyway, I doubt it would cover everything that anyone has to say about the Chenoua language. Homestarmy 18:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you under the impression that there exists even a single short article on Chenoua in English? Or that there exists some vast corpus of research on Chenoua? There are a couple of other brief articles on Chenoua on other central Maghreb dialects such as Beni-Menacer and Bissa (all in French), but none approaching the length or detail of Laoust 1912. More to the point, the language of the source is completely irrelevant; if you want to check the information, it's not exactly hard to find French speakers. This article is itself the longest English-language description of Chenoua in existence. - Mustafaa 21:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zenati?

Ethnologue doesn't include Chenoua in Zenati. Linguasphere (2000) doesn't include Chenoua so it's not much help. Blench doesn't include Chenoua. Indeed, Ethnologue is the only listing I can recall that includes Chenoua. I'll keep watching this page if you have references for the Zenati inclusion. I see in Blench and Ruhlen (1976) a reference to Sheliff Basin and in Linguasphere a reference to Menacer-Metmata. Do you consider these to be the same as Chenoua? You mention in the article that they are sometimes lumped together. Ethnologue's description of Chenoua doesn't cover the Sheliff Basin. (Taivo (talk) 04:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC))