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Hi Ming,

Le 29/05/2020 à 11:02, Ming H. a écrit :
I was translating various language names used in LO and had a question about the English strings, 
specifically the name of Congo.  As a Chinese I know nothing about languages spoken in Africa, so 
I'm writing to the list, hope someone more knowlegable can answer.

For the languages presented in LO, the parentheses are usually [1] used for notation of the 
country/region the language is spoken in.  And in
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?checksum=c7f58abceaa60b71
Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, is noted as such.

However there is also
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?checksum=4abc603904d1d7fa
where the country notation is only "Congo".  Does this mean it's spoken in Republic of the Congo 
(a.k.a. Congo-Brazzaville)?  If yes, it's probably better to be explicitly spelled out, as 
"Congo" is ambigous.

There are also four other strings with "(Congo)" notations:
https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/svtoolsmessages/zh_Hans/?q=source%3A%22(Congo)%22&offset=2
which also need clarification.

In fact, this is part of the language name and not only the name of the
country. Look here for Kituba:
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kitu1245
But what is strange is that Aka has no area attached to it
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/akaa1242
https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/soh
I wonder where it comes from, I'll ask Eike

Cheers
Sophie


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