Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Question about translating language names

Le 29/05/2020 à 13:02, Ming H. a écrit :
> Hi Sophie,
>
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> From: <sophi@libreoffice.org>;
> Send time: Friday, May 29, 2020 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Question about translating language names
> > Hi Ming,
> >
> > Le 29/05/2020 à 11:02, Ming H. a écrit :
> > > I was translating various language names used in LO and had
> > > a question about the English strings, specifically the name of Congo.
> > > As a Chinese I know nothing about languages spoken in Africa, so
> > > I'm writing to the list, hope someone more knowlegable can answer.
> >
> > > For the languages presented in LO, the parentheses are usually used
> > > for notation of the country/region the language is spoken in.
> [...]
> > In fact, this is part of the language name and not only the name of the
> > country. Look here for Kituba:
> > https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kitu1245
>
> I respectfully disagree.  They are just names linguists use to distinguish
> dialects/variants of the same language.  Linguists may like to call them
> different languages like they differentiate all those dialects of English:
> https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/stan1293
> But to an ordinary layman, they are just the same language, spoken with
> slight differences in different countries.
I agree, but what we take usually is the name as described in the iso code
https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mkw
> And note that although this website uses names like "Indian English", LO
> uses "English (India)" in the style I described.
There is no iso code for Indian English so I guess it's just an
indication in this case
> > But what is strange is that Aka has no area attached to it
> > https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/akaa1242
> > https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/soh
>
> In my original link
> https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?q=source%3A%22(Congo)%22&offset=2
> you can see three other languages as well (click the "Next" button):
> Koongo, Njyem, and Yombe.
>
> > I wonder where it comes from, I'll ask Eike
>
> Eike is definitely the expert on these locale issues.  It would be great to
> hear from him.

Yes, so let see what he'll say :-)
Cheers
Sophie

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