Features/Language-List

Columns description

• old: OLD LIST. language name in English. DO NOT CHANGE
• old_lib: OLD LIST. autonym. DO NOT CHANGE
• ISO_639-3: Why several codes per language? there can be only one code per language.
• new: NEW LIST. MAIN language name in English. Length of this field should be short. WARNING: NOT EDITABLE in the future GrimPixel: Even little changes for languages with few users? It means to slowly examine and change something in that file. Vincent: Changing 'new_lib', 'new_lib2', 'ISO' is easy but changing 'new' is possible but complicated
• update: 'break' or 'merge'
• rename: 1 for yes.

Changes in the file

Identical with those on SIL website

F2351 Serbo-Croatian

F5786 French Belgian Sign Language

Not identical with those on SIL website

F2604 Interlingua (IALA)

Definitions

• 'break' : the language in the old list is 'renamed' to the most popular new language (or there is no change). no database update is nessessary.
• 'rename' : the language in the old list is renamed. no database update is nessessary.
• 'merge' : the language is deleted from the old list. users will have a new language on their profile. database update is necessary.
• 'delete' : the same as 'merge', the language is deleted from the old list. users will have a new language on their profile (a similar language). database update is necessary.

List

• We must have the same list everywhere. Either we have only macro languages or we have individual languages. Else: risk of duplicate languages, need a big change in the website structure = too complicated. GrimPixel: Then, 3 lists: a list for everywhere, only individual languages; a list for some special places, only special languages; a list of some needed places, only macrolanguages.Vincent: I have to think about it, see what we can do :) but I am in favor of "the simpler the better" GrimPixel: The last resort: discard macrolanguages, only have individual and special.Vincent: the problem with several lists is that the website automatically select questions, corrections which match the languages on your profile, so if you make several lists, nothing will work. The same with lessons, later you will receive notifications about new lessons in the language you are learning. Or, we have to think everything over and use the relation an individual language is the CHILD of a macrolanguage (there is the column IsChild in the file). Will someone learning a macro language will be interested by receiving notifications about lessons to learn an individual language.... lots of issues to think about GrimPixel: The places needing to separate macrolanguages from others are profile, Find friends, Correction and Translation team. So users may select macrolanguages in their profile, but Find friends, Corrections and Translation team filter them.

I don't understand :

on profile, what do you want in the language list? :

• individual AND macro ?
• only individual ?
• only macro?

why ?

All languages for "you want to learn", macrolanguages filtered for "you can teach".Vincent: "macrolanguage filtered what does it mean? Do you mean "only individual languages are listed" or "only macrolanguages are listed" ? GrimPixel: I thought there can be a filter for the list in some specific places.

Why rename Albanian into 'Tosk Albanian'.

simplicity would mean just do nothing, keep the existing 'Albanian' ?

GrimPixel: If not, it would be thought to be including all Albanian languages. That's why there are macrolanguages.

In some places, such as a wiki lesson introducing all Quechua languages (44 items), it would be improper to select a child language and put the lesson there. If macrolanguages would be discarded, in those cases, users must select "mul" Multiple Languages.

old	ISO_639-3	new	update	rename	comment
Abkhazian	abk	Abkhazian
Afar	aar	Afar
Afrikaans	afr	Afrikaans
Albanian	als	Tosk Albanian	break	1	Why rename Albanian into 'Tosk Albanian'. simplicity would mean just do nothing, keep the existing 'Albanian' ?
Albanian	sqi	Albanian	break
Amharic	amh	Amharic
Arabic	arb	Standard Arabic	break	1	same
Arabic	ara	Arabic	break
Armenian	hye	Armenian
Assamese	asm	Assamese
Assyrian	aii	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic		1
Aymara	ayr	Central Aymara	break	1	same
Aymara	aym	Aymara	break
Azerbaijani	azj	North Azerbaijani	break	1	same
Azerbaijani	aze	Azerbaijani	break
Avar	ava	Avaric		1
Bashkir	bak	Bashkir
Basque	eus	Basque
Berber	zgh	Standard Moroccan Tamazight	break
Bhutani	dzo	Dzongkha		1
Bihari	bho	Bhojpuri	break
Bislama	bis	Bislama
Bosnian	bos	Bosnian
Breton	bre	Breton
Bulgarian	bul	Bulgarian
Burmese	mya	Burmese
Byelorussian	bel	Belarusian		1
Bengali	ben	Bengali
Cambodian	khm	Central Khmer		1
Catalan	cat	Catalan
Chinese, Cantonese	yue	Yue Chinese
Chinese, Mandarin	cmn	Mandarin Chinese	break	1
Chinese, Mandarin	zho	Chinese	break
Min (Taiwanese)	nan	Min Nan Chinese
Creole	hat	Haitian	delete	1
Corsican	cos	Corsican
Croatian	hrv	Croatian
Czech	ces	Czech
Danish	dan	Danish
Dutch	nld	Dutch
Egyptian	egy	Egyptian Arabic		1
English	eng	English
Esperanto	epo	Esperanto
Estonian	est	Estonian
Estonian	ekk	Standard Estonian		1
Fiji	fij	Fijian
Faeroese	fao	Faroese
Tagalog	fil	Filipino	break	1	same
Tagalog	tgl	Tagalog	break
Finnish	fin	Finnish
French	fra	French
Frisian	fry	Western Frisian		1
Ga	gaa	Ga
Gothic	got	Gothic
Irish	gle	Irish
Gaelic	gla	Scottish Gaelic		1
Galician	glg	Galician
Georgian	kat	Georgian
German	deu	German
Greek	ell	Modern Greek (1453-)		1
Greek (Classical)	grc	Ancient Greek (to 1453)		1
Greenlandic	kal	Kalaallisut		1
Guarani	gug	Paraguayan Guaraní		1
Gujarati	guj	Gujarati
Hausa	hau	Hausa
Hebrew	heb	Hebrew
Ido-Reformed Esperanto	ido	Ido		1
Hindi	hin	Hindi
Hungarian	hun	Hungarian
Icelandic	isl	Icelandic
Imho	ibo	Igbo	delete	1
Indonesian	ind	Indonesian
Iranian	pes	Iranian Persian	merge
Inupiak	ipk	Inupiaq		1
Interlingua	ina	Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
Italian	ita	Italian
Japanese	jpn	Japanese
Javanese	jav	Javanese
Kannada	kan	Kannada
Kashmiri	kas	Kashmiri
Kazakh	kaz	Kazakh
Kinyarwanda	kin	Kinyarwanda
Kirghiz	kir	Kirghiz
Kirundi	run	Rundi
Korean	kor	Korean
Kurdish	kur	Kurdish
Latin	lat	Latin
Laothian	lao	Lao
Latvian	lav	Latvian
Lingala	lin	Lingala
Lithuanian	lit	Lithuanian
Macedonian	mkd	Macedonian
Malagasy	mlg	Malagasy
Malay	zlm	Malay (individual language)		1
Malay	msa	Malay (macrolanguage)		1
Malayalam	mal	Malayalam
Maltese	mlt	Maltese
Maori	mri	Maori
Marathi	mar	Marathi
Middle Eastern	arb	Standard Arabic	delete	1
Moldavian	ron	Romanian	merge
Mongolian	khk	Halh Mongolian	break
Mongolian	mon	Mongolian	break
Moroccan	ary	Moroccan Arabic		1
Nauru	nau	Nauru
Nepali	npi	Nepali (individual language)	break	1
Nepali	nep	Nepali (macrolanguage)	break
Norwegian	nob	Norwegian Bokmål	break	1
Norwegian	nor	Norwegian	break
Occitan	oci	Occitan (post 1500)
Oriya	ory	Oriya (individual language)	break	1
Oriya	ori	Oriya (macrolanguage)	break
Oromo (Afan)	gax	Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo	break	1
Oromo (Afan)	orm	Oromo	break
Pashto (Pushto)	pst	Central Pashto	break	1
Pashto (Pushto)	pus	Pushto	break
Persian	pes	Iranian Persian	break	1
Persian	fas	Persian	break
Polish	pol	Polish
Portuguese	por	Portuguese
Provencal	oci	Occitan	merge
Punjabi	pan	Panjabi		1
Quenya	qya	Quenya
Quechua	qwc	Classical Quechua	break	1
Quechua	que	Quechua	break
Rhaeto-Romance	roh	Romansh	delete	1
Romanian	ron	Romanian
Russian	rus	Russian
Samoan	smo	Samoan
Sanskrit	san	Sanskrit
Sardinian	sro	Campidanese Sardinian	break
Sardinian	src	Logudorese Sardinian	break
Sardinian	srd	Sardinian	break
Sangro	sag	Sango	delete	1
Serbian	srp	Serbian
Sesotho	sot	Southern Sotho		1
Setswana	tsn	Tswana		1
Sindhi	snd	Sindhi
Shona	sna	Shona
Siswati	ssw	Swati		1
Sign Language	ase	American sign language		1
Sinhalese	sin	Sinhala		1
Singhalese	sin	Sinhala	merge
Slovak	slk	Slovak
Slovenian	slv	Slovenian
Somali	som	Somali
Spanish	spa	Spanish
Sudanese	sun	Sundanese
Swahili	swh	Swahili (individual language)		1
Swahili	swa	Swahili (macrolanguage)
Swedish	swe	Swedish
Tajik	tgk	Tajik
Tamil	tam	Tamil
Tatar	tat	Tatar
Telugu	tel	Telugu
Thai	tha	Thai
Tibetan	bod	Tibetan
Tigrinya	tir	Tigrinya
Tonga	ton	Tonga (Tonga Islands)		1
Tsonga	tso	Tsonga
Turkish	tur	Turkish
Turkmen	tuk	Turkmen
Twi	twi	Twi
Ukrainian	ukr	Ukrainian
Urdu	urd	Urdu
Uzbek	uzb	Uzbek
Vietnamese	vie	Vietnamese
Volapuk	vol	Volapük		1
Welsh	cym	Welsh
Xhosa	xho	Xhosa
Wolof	wol	Wolof
Yiddish	ydd	Eastern Yiddish	break	1	same
Yiddish	yid	Yiddish	break
Yoruba	yor	Yoruba
Zulu	zul	Zulu