5 Jun
2022
5 Jun
'22
4:26 p.m.
Hi, I've made the user helabasa language admin for Sinhala; Sinhalese (si). Katrin On 01.06.22 04:46, R45XvezA wrote: > Hi > --------------------- > <victor@tuxayo.net> wrote: >>> On 22-06-01 02:55, R45XvezA wrote: > username: helabasa (for sinhala, sinhalese) > // You need to answer the previous email leaving the koha-translate mailing list in copy because I don't have any rights on the translation platform. > --------------- > > Sorry, i forgot to add all mails to CC > > ------------------ >>> I have a another request, please delete "ta_LK" from entire koha and keep only "ta" (tamil) in the platform. Currently it seems no one contribute to the tamil language. > Reasons: > 1. "ta_LK" is an unnecessary version with loan words. > 2. This behavior slow down translation speed for tamil language > 3. If many people accustomed to using it then affect to the language quality > > // It needs a new dedicated thread on koha-translate as I don't have rights on the translation platform and some questions need clarification before deleting a language. > Here is a first from me. Isn't ta_LK the Tamil variant that is spoken by 28.5% of the people in Sri Lanka? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Sri_Lanka Or is the variant actually used a little and most Tamil speakers speak simply Tamil without specific Sri Lanka variations? > ------------------- > > No. Tamil language speak in multiple countries and it doesn't have/or need variants. (+according to our language and history knowledge). See side panel "regions with population" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamils > > Some are try to add variants to IT products for political purposes but this behavior itself affect to tamil people and speakers as mentioned. If someone try to create a variant, it definitely contain more, ancient greek, english, dutch, portuguese, sinhala, malay etc > > e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_loanwords_in_other_languages#In_Sinhala > > --------------- >>> Also, i can speak tamil fluently then i will contribute to it in my free time > Great news :D you need to also ask to be made translator, reviewer or admin for tamil so you will be able to work on it. > ----------- > > Okey. thank you^^ > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-translate mailing list > Koha-translate@lists.koha-community.org > https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate > website: www.koha-community.org > git: git.koha-community.org > bugs: bugs.koha-community.org