Opened 12 months ago
Last modified 3 weeks ago
#204 assigned enhancement
Add support for Berber language
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| Component: | locale information | Version: | 0.1 |
| Keywords: | needs-patch | Cc: | vanillalounge |
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abdessamad idrissi — 12 months ago
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vanillalounge — 12 months ago
I agree with what you said; Wikipedia considers Berber as a group of languages, but for me as a native Berber, I don't think so; It is as if you say English is a group of languages (British, US, South African English...) It is just a matter of pronunciation variations but most of the words are the same.
Since the year 2001 the IRCAM is working on standardization of the Berber language.
According to the ISO 639-2; Berber languages are given the ber code, the same for Bihari languages which are given the code bih; Bihari languages are found in Glotpress so why Berber languages will be an exception?
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vanillalounge — 12 months ago
- Owner set to vanillalounge
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- Owner changed from vanillalounge to scribu
- Status changed from assigned to accepted
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from accepted to closed
Forgot to mention the ticket in the commit: [720]
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westi — 7 months ago
Replying to westi:
Replying to scribu:
Forgot to mention the ticket in the commit: [720]
I think we should leave these for Ze to review.
Also, I'm not sure that there are printable chars in the Native Name.
Looks like they are:
U+2D30 TIFINAGH LETTER YA character (ⴰ)
U+2D4E TIFINAGH LETTER YAM character (ⵎ)
U+2D30 TIFINAGH LETTER YA character (ⴰ)
U+2D63 TIFINAGH LETTER YAZ character (ⵣ)
U+2D49 TIFINAGH LETTER YI character (ⵉ)
U+2D56 TIFINAGH LETTER YAGH character (ⵖ)
U+2D5C TIFINAGH LETTER YAT character (ⵜ)
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westi — 7 months ago
- Owner changed from scribu to vanillalounge
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vanillalounge — 7 months ago
As to the native string we can use "Tamaziɣt", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages, but I'm still not comfortable with adding Berber as a language. It still looks like a language group to me. Can abdessamad idrissi perhaps enlighten us a to if this applies to a particular variant of the language? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages#Subclassification.
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vanillalounge — 7 months ago
- Cc vanillalounge added
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markoheijnen — 3 weeks ago
- Keywords needs-patch added; has-patch removed

Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to Wikipedia, Berber is a group of languages, not a uniform entity. Is there a predominant variant of Berber that's in use? Sometimes people will mention a language by its metaname, the assumption being that they're talking about the variant that's most used.