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 [1] used for > notation of the country/region the language is spoken in. And in > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?checksum=c7f58abceaa60b71 > Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, is noted as > such. > > However there is also > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?checksum=4abc603904d1d7fa > where the country notation is only "Congo". Does this mean it's spoken in > Republic of the Congo (a.k.a. Congo-Brazzaville)? If yes, it's probably > better to be explicitly spelled out, as "Congo" is ambigous. > > There are also four other strings with "(Congo)" notations: > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?q=source%3A%22(Congo)%22&offset=2 > which also need clarification.
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 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 I wonder where it comes from, I'll ask Eike Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org GSM: +33683901545 IRC: sophi Foundation coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
