Am 22.11.2016 um 10:19 schrieb David Cuenca Tudela: >> There are many many words with multiple spellings, but not many words with > more than two, and few with more than three [citation needed]. > > That is not true in languages with a high amount of dialects. For instance in > Catalan there are 5 standard spellings for "carrot" depending on which dialect > you choose, plus some more if you consider local variations: > https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastanaga
How does Lemon handle this? Does it provide some guidance on how to display a Form with many represenations? Or is that simply left to the application? You are right that dialects pose a problem here, since they often have multiple competing spellings (e.g. there's German Low-German and Dutch Low-German - mostly same vocabulary, different orthography). > Additionally the same form can have different meanings depending on which > dialect you choose. For instance "pastenaga" means "orange carrot" in Catalan > from Catalonia, and "purple carrot" in Catalan from Valencia. > > Which makes me think, how dialects will be handled? Statements? This is up to the community. I suppose it will depend on the individual case. Sometimes, it will be more useful to have a separate lexeme. Sometimes, you'd have multiple representations (lemmas), plus representation statements with qualifiers. -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
