[Koha-bugs] [Bug 33134] Add some missing languages

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=33134

--- Comment #6 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
(In reply to Janusz Kaczmarek from comment #5)
> OK, I'm just speculating: Is somewhere a place where you could find the
> names of the ancient languages in the language itself?  What would be the
> point for this? 
> 
> I think the serious major problem now, with ES and the language facet, is
> that in a humanistic library the user is presented with meaningless code
> entries in the facet instead of language names, at least in English.
> 
> Do we really need the language name in the language itself?  for what
> purpose?  It is nice if it is present in the advanced search but if it is
> not--like classic Syriac for syc or classis Greek including koine for grc or
> other exotic languages we hold in our libraries--it is not a big problem. 
> At least much less important than syc and grc etc. as elements of the
> language facet, IMVHO.
> 
> Any idea how to solve this and move it forward so that this issue would not
> remain frozen for next months or years?

That's why I wrote this:
I think we should try and add _as many as possible_ of these as well. I am
aware that for some it makes no sense.

I believe we are also missing some more common ones. I'll think on it.

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