Le 29/05/2020 à 13:02, Ming H. a écrit : > Hi Sophie, > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > From: <[email protected]>; > 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 -- Sophie Gautier [email protected] GSM: +33683901545 IRC: sophi Foundation coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
