[Wikipedia-l] Language names

Gerard Meijssen gerardm at myrealbox.com
Tue Nov 23 21:47:27 UTC 2004


Mark Williamson wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>We have some language names (ie, for interwiki) that aren't right.
>
>Among them are:
>
>bo (tibetan): bod skad (should be བོད་ཡིག)
>bn (bengali): should be বাংলা
>or (oriya): Oriya (should be ଓଡ଼ିଆ)
>xh (xhosa): Xhosa (should be isiXhosa)
>zu (zulu): Zulu (should be isiZulu)
>dv (divehi): should be ހިބަސް
>lo (lao): should be ລາວ
>si (sinhala): should be සිංහල
>ht (haitian creole): should be Krèyol
>dz (dzongkha): should be ཇོང་ཁ
>
>Best,
>Mark
>  
>
Mark,
I had a look Lao is according to en:wikipedia ພາສາລາວ. I cannot read the 
characters for dv and si, I would appreciate it if you could post it 
somewhere where from where it is usable.
ht is called *Haitian Creole* /(Kreyòl/ or /Ayisyan) /according to the 
en:wikipedia//
Thanks,
    GerardM



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