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[edit] Language names
I am trying to provide names for the languages of other wikis in Inuktitut. I'm using the following principles:
- Where I can find an attested name for the language in any recent resource, I use it. Only English, French and Chinese fit this category.
- Where I can find a name for the country, I slap a ᑎᑐᑦ on it, since that seems to be the structure normally used to construct language names in the Nunavut Hansard.
- For artifical languages, I simply try to transcribe the name since no one speaking an artificial language is speaking "like" people of a certain kind. Ergo, ᑎᑐᑦ seems inappropriate.
- In the cases of other global languages, I'm going to try to use the English country name and the ᑎᑐᑦ suffix.
- Smaller languages I'm just going to leave be.
ᑏᑎᕉ 09:38, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Greenlandic music
I have nominated the en:Music of Greenland article to be the Wikimedia translation of the week. That means, if it gets selected, it will be translated into many languages, probably at least a dozen. It has been suggested that the article should be translated in Greenlandic or some other language before being chosen, so if anybody can help out there, please do. If you'd like to comment on the nomination, go to meta:Translation of the Week#en:Music_of_Greenland_-_2-0. Tuf-Kat from en (I know Greenlandic and Inuktikut aren't the same thing, but I thought someone here might be interested in the nomination)
[edit] Quechua
In the languages list, quechua mut be ᕿᓱᐊ instead ᑮᓱᐊ Greetings. Huhsunqu 21:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
