[Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha

[BalaSundaraRaman]

>Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :)


Interesting. Some exonyms just stick, I suppose. :)

- 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 at gmail.com>
>To: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>; Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: Oriya Wikipedia <wikipedia-or at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 AM
>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
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>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.
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>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.
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>Just an example fi or Finnish is actually called Suomi in Finland :)
>Thanks,
>      GerardM
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>On 24 March 2011 16:34, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move wiki projects as well?
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>>- Sundar
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>>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
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>>>From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
>>>To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; Oriya Wikipedia <wikipedia-or at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:59 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia and Odisha
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>>>Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
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>>>Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as Odia and the Orissa state will hereafter be called Odisha.
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>>>More detailed news here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/parliament-approves-new-name-for-orissa/articleshow/7780000.cms
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>>>Shiju
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