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<body>Pronunciation is a whole new level, isn't it? Do we have tags for IPA to distinguish spellings from one another?<br><br>You're right that it isn't "just" language, but I'm unsure if it's reasonably possible to display any "oddities" of local tongues within OSM (even though it's possible obviously relational-database-wise).<br><br>K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 13. Juni 2021 17:50:48 MESZ schrieb Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 06/13/2021 5:01 PM Kai Michael Poppe - OSM <osm@poppe.dev> wrote:
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</div>My point being: for place names such as countries and cities, I'd really only add another language's name if it's a) not identical with the local name
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Written identically, or pronounced identically as well? Paris is used in at least three languages for the capital of France, but pronounced very differently.
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It's not only language, either... In Belgium, Lille (France) is known as Rijsel in Dutch (Flemish) but most Dutch people in NL just use Lille.
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