[OSM-talk] I would like to add names in languages of French Polynesia. How to do ?

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/09/12 10:02, LIVINE Christin wrote:

> I added many points with multiple languages with name:fr, name:en,
> name:ja, name:ja_rm, name:ja_kana.
> I would like to add names in languages of French Polynesia. How to do ?
>
> ISO code for writing and speaking is the same ?

That's not a simple question, but in generally I think they are mostly 
about writing and I'm not sure how well they can differentiate between 
different pronunciations of the same language.

> - Tahitian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahitian_language. ISO 639-1:
> ty. ISO 639-2: tah. ISO 639-3: tah.
> Personnally, I prefer use tah from ISO 639-3, but can I arbitrarily use
> ISO 639-3 instead of ISO 639-1 ?

I would have thought it was generally better to use the two letter tag 
from ISO 639-1 where one exists and only use the three letter tag when 
that is actually necessary.

What is your reason for preferring the 639-3 three letter tag?

> Until recently, historically, because of religious influences, there
> were two ways of writing tahitian language :
>      - one from protestants
> (http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Syst%C3%A8me_graphique_de_l%E2%80%99%C3%89glise_Protestante_Maohi),
>
>      - one from catholics which could be the standard
> (http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Syst%C3%A8me_graphique_de_l%E2%80%99Acad%C3%A9mie_tahitienne).
> How to differentiate the two writing systems ?

Are there not script subtags or something that will differentiate 
between these? There usually are where multiple orthographies exist for 
a language.

> - Marquesan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesan_language. Two
> dialects. ISO 639-3: mrq – North Marquesan, mqm – South Marquesan.
>
> - Tuamotuan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuamotuan_language. ISO 639-3:
> pmt.
>
> - Mangareva. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangareva_language. ISO 639-3:
> mrv.
>
> - Austral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral_language. ISO 639-3: aut.
>
> - Rapa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa_language. ISO 639-3: ray.

If these only exist in 639-3 then I would say the three letter tag is fine.

Tom

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