<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff, font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks to the translatewiki team for facilitating localisation efforts.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>As for Saurashtra language, most of its speakers live in and around the cities of Madurai and Kumbakonam for several generations now.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>They speak Saurashtra at home and Tamil outside. (In fact, a veteran Tamil
playback singer T.M.Soundararajan was a Saurashtra speaker.)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>So, I think the fallback language would be Tamil (although the speakers originally came from the eponymous region in today's Gujarat and the language's kernel is related to Gujarati and Marathi.)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Its autonym in Tamil would be "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;
"><b>சௌராட்டிர மொழி</b></span>" per Tamil Wiki article. In Saurashtra script, it is available as an image at <a href="http://www.sourashtra.info/daar.htm">http://www.sourashtra.info/daar.htm</a> (the first word below the image of the person is "Saurashtra" and the second word "Bhasha").</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">- Sundar</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth
generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:30 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimediaindia-l] Update from translatewiki.net<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv123321670">Hoi,<br>Yesterday we had quite a momentous day at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translatewiki.net">translatewiki.net</a>. After a lot of preparation our server was upgraded and we now have a much more responsive system. It is a joy again to localise; the system is so much more responsive..<br>
<br>What may be of as much interest to this list is that we had someone asking for another Indian language. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Category:User_saz" title="Category:User saz">Saurashtra</a> is a language that is written in three scripts according to Ethnologue; Tamil, Devanagari and the Saurashtra script. At this stage we are still getting the formalities in place; we have created a portal page and we are at the point where we are asking for the "autonym" or the name of the language in the language. Another question we will ask is what language will be the fall back language.<br>
<br>This new language brings new opportunities to bring Indian culture and knowledge to the Internet. <br>Thanks,<br> GerardM<br>
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