Martin that reminds me of what someone did in Northern Canada:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/107355436#map=14/68.7653/-81.2156

Inuktitut and English, despite Inuktitut not really being used(it's a way
to write what they speak invented by European settlers/priests), problem is
it's only for Inuit people and does not work for other Native American
languages

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:31 PM Martin Koppenhoefer, <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>
> sent from a phone
>
> On 24. Apr 2018, at 15:58, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Same tags, but the feature is in Italy -- now "name" tag is the better
> choice because the name is actually in the same language as the reader.
>
>
>
> last year there were actually discussions in Italy whether to put other
> names than Italian in the name tag in some areas (where this language
> wasn’t currently recognized as official language but used on the ground
> (AFAIR, groundtruth was disputed by some, but it was hard to verify)). In
> the officially multilingual areas people are tagging multiple languages in
> name:
> eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/47207
>
> this is not very beautiful, while it was IMHO a good compromise for the
> past, maybe this could be solved nicer with a new approach?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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