Hello! It is my goal for 2023 to translate LibreOffice into Cherokee. It looks like there are no previous nor current translations in weblate so I'll have to start from the ground up. I've read a few of the articles on the wiki and I think the following is enough to get the ball rolling. English: Cherokee Native Syllabary: ᏣᎳᎩ Romanized: Tsalagi Romanized with phonetic breaks: Tsa-la-gi ISO 639-2: chr ISO 639-3: chr It is polysynthetic language, written from left to right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language It spoken in by the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation (CN) in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) in North Carolina. There are dialectical differences and I will focused on what is taught and spoken in North Carolina. While the native script is supported by Unicode and LibreOffice Writer (tested on GNU+Linux), most real life signage typically has both English and Cherokee side by side. Some may bold certain syllables in the Romanized form to aid with enunciation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language#/media/File:Cwy_no_parking.jpg If possible I would like to do something similar in LibreOffice. Hopefully this will lower the learning curve and give a lower barrier for self teachers. It would make navigating the menus... interesting. I'm open to suggestions on how to best to do this. Perhaps two translations projects/entries would be necessary one for the native and one for the Romanized? Both the Tri-Council and UNESCO have acknowledged that the Tsalagi is critically endangered so anything that would help "learning while using" would be worth while. https://theonefeather.com/2019/06/27/tri-council-declares-state-of-emergency-for-cherokee-language/ https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2022/06/redirect_new_world_atlas_of_languages_en.pdf Thank you. -- David A. Redick -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
