From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Wed Feb 05 17:01:37 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18gaPy-0006zQ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:01:31 -0800 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C5CF273C; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:01:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Language Names, please. Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:01:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030205220821.GJ13069@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20030205220821.GJ13069@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302052001.01080.phma@webjockey.net> X-archive-position: 4018 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wednesday 05 February 2003 17:08, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Need to fill in the names for these languages in lojban for jbovlaste: > > bg - Bulgarian - > Български bolgaro > sk - Slovak - Slovencina sk - Slovak - Slovenský - slovako > sl - Slovenian - Slovenscina sl - Slovenian - Slovenski - slovino Make it clear which is which; the names of these two languages for themselves are too close together. > vi - Vietnamese - Tiêng Viêt vietnama > et - Estonian - Eesti bangrxesti > gl - Galician - Galego > uk - Ukrainian - > Укранська - vukro > am - Amharic - አማርኛ amxari? amxara? > cy - Welsh - Cymraeg - kimro kymraig. I don't think Welsh should have a gismu, and I'm not sure what to do about the 'y' when making a brivla, but there should be a brivla so that we can speak about a Welsh broda. > ga - Irish - Gaeilge - gailge > ia - Interlingua - Interlingua > wa - Walloon - Walon frasrvalona? btw, I am now using KDE 3.0.99 which has pretty good Unicode support, though Indian abugidas are still mangled. phma