Re: New strings in GDM

["Francesco Marletta" <francesco marletta tiscali it>]

> -- Messaggio Originale --
> From: Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol@my-penguin.org>
> To: Åsmund Skjæveland <aasmunds@fys.uio.no>
> Cc: GNOME i18n list <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: New strings in GDM
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:03:56 +0800
>
>
> Åsmund Skjæveland menulis:
> >>  "A-M|English (Canadian)"
> >>  "N-Z|Serbian (Latin)"
> >>  "N-Z|Serbian (Jekavian)"
> >>
> >>Translators, please update your translations.
> >
> >
> > What is "jekavian"?
> I always have problem translating language name
> some language name has malay translation, but the rest don't.
>
> we have "Jerman" for "German" , "Belanda" for "Dutch"
> may be beacuse of old history, or old relationship, that term existed.

The same for other languages (mine - italian - for example)

> but for Ukranian, Latvian, Jekavian etc, there is no Malay Translation
> for it.
> Maybe other language have the same problem.
> How do you guy translate "Malay"?

In italian: Malay is Malese (if I remember well)

>
> I'm thingking of a solution that might help every language that doesnt
> has complete list of Language name.
>
> Language name in english normally have *an, *ian, *ish etc.
> normally, language name derive from Race/ethic  or country or region.
> Can we can a list of how the *an, *ian, *ish came from?
> Jekavian is from Jekav or Jekavi ?

good IDEA

I've already decided to follow this rule for language name for which we
didn't have a translation.
>

Francesco


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