Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :)
Interesting. Some exonyms just stick, I suppose. :)
- Sundar
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From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com; Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Oriya Wikipedia wikipedia-or@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
Hoi, The or code is from the ISO-639-1, the code in the ISO-639-3 is ori. The codes are meant as a unique identifier and making them easy to remember is in some way helpful in others it is problematic. It is problematic because all the existing expressions in a language will still be known by the old code.
Consequently the codes stay the same and the new name is added with the old name as a valid synonym. To understand this, these names and codes are used internationally and the rest of the world does often find it hard to change.
Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :) Thanks, GerardM
On 24 March 2011 16:34, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com wrote:
If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move wiki projects as well?
- 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
From: Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Oriya Wikipedia wikipedia-or@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as Odia and the Orissa state will hereafter be called Odisha.
More detailed news here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/parliament-approves...
Shiju
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