Requested at
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&oldid=11429494
With contstructed languages, there are sometimes potential issues
of copyright, but in this case, it seems OK. Looking at the website:
Is it possible to get permission to do things with Láadan?
What if I want to write poetry in Láadan, for example, or fiction?
What if I want to start a Láadan study group?
What if I want to make some changes in the language?
Answer: No living human language is “owned” by anyone or anything.
Since Láadan was launched as a scientific experiment, intended
to live or die on its own like any other language, there was
no way I could “own” it except in the sense of having copyrighted
its original form. From the very beginning, every chance I got,
I made it clear that I not only was willing to have other people
do things with the language, I encouraged it. Nobody has to have
my permission; nobody has to clear what they do with me,
or report to me, or anything like that.
from: https://laadanlanguage.com/articles/articles-by-suzette/laadan-faq/
Requested at
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Igala_Language
For now, adding with the autonym "Igala", which appears
on Ethnologue. There are several variants with tones,
e.g. Igálá, Igáláà, Ígálâ, etc., but no apparent single
standard, so staritng with something simple that is safe
and easy to find.
Later, if a standard emerges, the autonym can be updated.
Requested at
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Request_to_reactivate_Makassarese_to_Translatewiki
Autonyms in Latin and Lontara script according
to page 187 in this dictionary:
Kamus Makassar-Indonesia, Drs. Aburaerah Arief, 1995
Comment: It appears that there are two spelling standards.
In the other one, the name is written with an apostrophe
instead of the letter k in the end. The one with k appears to be
the common one in Indonesian publications, and is
used in the Wikimedia Incubator. If the speakers' community
ever decides to move the spelling with the apostrophe,
the name can be changed.
In Kanuri, the name of the language is specifically
written in lowercase, according to
"Dictionary of the Kanuri Language"
Edited by: Norbert Cyffer and John Hutchinson
De Gruyter 1990.
The previous name was added in 2008 for translatewiki, and it's
not actually the autonym, but its IPA pronunciation.
This language uses several orthographies based
on Japanese writing systems, and several linguists
whose expertise is Ryukyuan linguistics recommended
that I use this Hiragana-based name as the most
neutral and understandable. I'll also add aliases
to ULS to ensure that it's findable.
Also remove the "Kana" writing system,
which is just a subset of "Jpan".
"Eastern" Yiddish is much more common than Western, so ydd
and yi refer to the same language. It's unclear why was ydd
even added to translatewiki. It was done very long ago,
before translatewiki configuration was managed in Git.
There are no translation into it there, which makes sense,
given that it's the same as just Yiddish (yi).
Given that ydd is a standard code, it can remain as
a redirect, but it shouldn't really be used.
The name "Kirundi" was added to MediaWiki very early in
its history. This name is used in English (in addition to "Rundi"),
but the native name is actually "ikirundi". It appears in Ethnologue.
See also
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302972
This makes the name equal to the one in MediaWiki core.
It's also used in Ethnologue and the Wikipedia in this language.
"Taroko" is an alternate name, and there's no need to
mention both.
Most of the activity in translatewiki, Wikidata,
and Incubator is in the Tai Tham script, so set nod
to that. But there are also people who want to use
the Thai script, so allow it, too.
This also adds support for the Tai Tham script
(ISO 15924 Lana).
Requested in Wikimedia Phabricator:
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293884
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288335
Aghem autonym according to Ethnologue. I can find several
variants online, and this looks like the most reliable.
Masana autonym according to
"Dictionnaire Masa-Français, Dialectes Gumay et Ɦaara (Tchad)"
by Melis Antonino
The name "gurenɛ" is used only in Ghana and refers only
to one dialect. This language is also spoken in Burkina Faso,
and the name "farefare" covers all the dialects in both
countries. The activity in this language in translatewiki.net
and in the Wikimedia Incubator is higher recently, and this
was requested by the contributors to this language.
Confirmed with the book
De la phonologie à l’orthographe : Le ninkãrɛ au Burkina Faso,
Idda et Urs Niggli SIL, 2007
(page 6).
A translatewiki translator said that this ojb the more
appropriate code for the existing translations, so it has
to be added. The code ciw is valid, too, so it's preserved.
The name "Ojibwemowin" is more appropriate for ojb, and
ciw is now named "Anishinaabemowin".
I also confirmed this with another Ojibwe language teacher.
For more reference, see downstream task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281053
Requested at
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Dargin_language
Autonym according to:
Х.ГӀ. Юсупов, «Даргала-урусла словарь», ХӀ. ЦӀадасала уличилси
Мезла, литературала ва искусствола институт, МяхIячкъала 2014
and verified with speakers.
This helps Git and Vim be less confused about diffs.
It somehow sometimes happens that a newline is added to
the end of language-data.json, but sometimes it is not added,
and then Git diff shows it as removed or added. This change
ensures that it's always added.
The name "Wayúu" appeared a long time ago in translatewiki,
and it's unclear what is its source. All the sources that I can
find say that autonym is "wayuunaiki", for example Ethnologue and
Diccionario básico ilustrado wayuunaiki-español español-wayuunaiki
(Editorial Fundación para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Marginados, Bogotá, D.C., 2005)
In the years that have passed since I wrote a comment saying
that this language is "complicated", I found sources that clearly
show that the primary alphabet for this language now is Latin.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talysh_language#Scripts
MediaWiki's Names.php was updated, too.
This language is known in English as Shilha, Tashelhit,
Tachelhit, and also by some other names.
The most authoritative modern name in the language itself
is Taclḥit, with the letter c. It appears in the textbook
"Méthode de tachelhit, langue amazighe (berbère) du sud du Maroc"
by Abdallah El Mountassir and also in the online
"Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Amazighe Informatisé"
( https://tal.ircam.ma/dglai/lexieam.php ). It also directly
corresponds to the spelling in the Tifinagh script.
This change was requested by the localizers in translatewiki
and authors in the Wikipedia Incubator in this language.
They appear in translatewiki's local configuration,
but not here in language-data. The data about all of these
is stable enough to be here.
Co-authored-by: Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com>
The reason I'm adding it is that recently I almost submitted
a patch in which I wrote a language code with the Cyrillic letter о
instead of the corresponding Latin letter. It's not a perfect test,
but it's good enough for a basic check.
Originally written by yjfvictor at
https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/58
Updated more conservatively by Amir E. Aharoni.
This is probably a transition to allow the splitting
to two variants. "cdo" will be reconfigured later
once the transition in other MediaWiki-related
properties will be over.
Co-authored-by: yjfvictor <yjf_victor@hotmail.com>
Other Chavacano varieties don't have codes. The have very few speakers,
and aren't expected to be used distinctly. In such cases we usually
redirect the specific code to a general standard code.
Addresses downstream bug:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263717
Requested by the speakers. "alt" is the main literary language,
so it's called just "Altai", and the word "language" is necessary,
similarly to how it's done in the related Sakha and Tuvan languages.
