https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17546
Summary: Correct Tongan language native name to "lea faka-Tonga"
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.15-svn
Platform: All
URL: http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&diff=1075
002&oldid=1074805
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Years ago probably someone said: Tongan = faka-Tonga, without too much
thinking, and since that time that error has permeated into all wikis. But it
is incorrect. In English perhaps a [countryname] can be an adjective to any
noun (French cheese, English county, Samoan people, Tongan house), or lacking
the noun, it can act as a noun itself, meaning the language of that country.
Not so in Tongan. Fakatonga means Tongan as an adjective and never as a noun.
Tongan language therefore must be translated as lea fakatonga (or lea
faka-Tonga, the jury is out on that, but since fakatonga can also means
'south', perhaps the latter form should be preferred).
As such: can some priviliged sysop change 'Faka-Tonga' into 'Lea faka-Tonga'
everywhere ?
Tauʻolunga 07:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Tau%CA%BBolunga
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&diff=1075002&oldid=1074805
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