Hoi,
As there are several issues, I have blogged about them.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 March 2011 10:50, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks to the translatewiki team for facilitating
localisation efforts.
As for Saurashtra language, most of its speakers live in and around the
cities of Madurai and Kumbakonam for several generations now.
They speak Saurashtra at home and Tamil outside. (In fact, a veteran Tamil
playback singer T.M.Soundararajan was a Saurashtra speaker.)
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.)
Its autonym in Tamil would be "*சௌராட்டிர மொழி*" per Tamil Wiki article.
In Saurashtra script, it is available as an image at
http://www.sourashtra.info/daar.htm (the first word below the image of the
person is "Saurashtra" and the second word "Bhasha").
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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*From:* Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
*To:* Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Sent:* Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:30 PM
*Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Update from
translatewiki.net
Hoi,
Yesterday we had quite a momentous day at
translatewiki.net. 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..
What may be of as much interest to this list is that we had someone asking
for another Indian language.
Saurashtra<http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Category:User_saz>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.
This new language brings new opportunities to bring Indian culture and
knowledge to the Internet.
Thanks,
GerardM
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