Other language Wikiquotes

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Wikiquote is a collaborative project aimed at creating a multilingual free content compendium of quotations.

The English language Wikiquote is the oldest and largest of Wikiquote projects, started on June 27, 2003. Other language versions of Wikiquote were created in July, 2004. As of January 2006, there are 33 active* Wikiquote projects:

Arabian Bulgarian Catalan Bosnian Czech German English Esperanto Spanish Basque Persian Finnish French

Hebrew Hungarian Basara Indonesian Islandish Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Luxembourgish Dutch Norwegian

Norwegian (nynorsk) Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Slovene Albanian Swedish Turkish Vietnamese Chinese

^*having at least one article.

Currently the Wikiquote projects have around 15,000 articles in total. Five projects including English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: the English Wikiquote has over 3,500 articles, and other five, French, German, Polish, Bulgarian and Bosnian Wikiquotes have more than 1,000 articles.

Bulgarian Wikiquote is the largest among non-latin alphabet Wikiquotes. Among non-European language Wikiquotes, Chinese and Japanese Wikiquotes have more than 100 articles.

Besides the above, there have been some plans to start Wikiquote projects in Hindi, Kannada, Persian, Tamil, Interlingua, and Latin. If you are interested in creating a new Wikiquote in your language, feel free to ask in Wikiquote:Village pump.

See also

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