Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
>Most Wikimedia projects don't translate "Wikipedia",
"Wiktionary", and
>"Wikimedia", they transliterate them. Even non-Latin alphabets do
>this: Russian Wikipedia is called "Википедию" which transliterates as
>Ve-I-Ka-I-Pe-Ye-De-I-Ya (those are the names of the letters, at
>least). Does Cherokee have some kind of formal transliteration system?
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>On 12/07/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>The name should be:
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>>ᏗᎪᏪᎵ ᎦᏣᏄᎳ
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>>(digoweli gatsanula)
>>"the books = pedia " " that are fast = wiki "
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>>to match the actual meanings of the words "wiki" and "pedia".
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>>The current name of the site, while catchy, is not accurate for the
>>language, and was synthesized.
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>>Just a suggestion...
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>>Jeff
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Yes. it does have one for words like this, but taking potshots at the
name can create something you do not intend.
Let's look at it:
Wi-gi-que-di-ya
wi - (negative imperfect past tense)
gi - to combine
que - incomplete verb root about an animal
di - plural for a non living object
ya - broad area of concern (means "pertains to or covers a broad area or
topic)
While it is interesting some of the points and counter points about this
issue, isn't this something better left to be discussed on project pages
by participants and made as a local decision? At least I would feel
more comfortable with people who are involved with the development of
the project (aka Cherokee Wikipedia content developers) instead of
getting European or Austrialian attitudes from people who may never even
add a single word to that project.
This whole discussion strikes me as something very similar to when the
name Wikipedia itself was coined, along with all of the other major
sister projects and their names.
There are no participants on the site. The site has been dead for
months. Probably because NONE OF THEM SPEAK CHEROKEE.
Perhaps best thing is to close the site completely and I'll just manage
the fork off Wikipedia.
Jeff
Jeff
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