Module talk:languages/data/3/l

Edit request (Lacandon)

Hello. Could you insert the following code at m["lac"]? Thanks. Eryk Kij (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

	family = "myn",

@エリック・キィ Done. —JohnC5 00:28, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Edit request (Laki)

Hi @Vahagn Petrosyan, please add this to lki. Thanks.

	translit_module = "lki-translit",
	entry_name = {
            from = {u(0x0650), u(0x0652)},
            to   = {}} ,

--Calak (talk) 07:24, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

@Calak  Done. --Vahag (talk) 08:57, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

RFM discussion: March–April 2016

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Linear A

Strangely enough we have a language code for Linear A [lab], even though Linear A is a writing system and not a language. I have no idea why it was encoded or why we have it. -- Liliana • 15:01, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

It's very odd. The script code for Linear A is "Lina"; the language code for Minoan is "omn"; but there's also a language code "lab" for a language called "Linear A". I have no idea what ISO and SIL were thinking, but I'm in favor of deleting "lab" from our modules. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:43, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

I'll bet their thinking is that the language written in the script may be an unknown language, which would be consistent with w:Linear A. There do seem to be a large number of hypotheses about Linear A, nearly on the same order as the total number of recorded instances of the script. DCDuring TALK 18:33, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

I see. Reading Minoan language more carefully, I see that it's written in both Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A, but since neither writing system has been deciphered, it isn't known whether it's the same language in two writing systems or two different languages. So maybe "omn" means Minoan in Cretan hieroglyphs and "lab" means Minoan in Linear A, and they may or may not refer to the same language. Given that the language is unknown and undeciphered, I wonder why we have one Minoan lemma: kuro. How do we know this word was pronounced "kuro" and that it means "total"? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 07:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

It's in the wrong script anyway (it was added before Unicode covered Linear A), but afaik Linear A can be read simply by using the known values for Linear B syllables, which are visually similar. This word is always found at the end of lists, followed by a number, so the meaning was easy to figure out. -- Liliana • 10:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

• I reckon we should indeed delete this language code; we can always change our minds once some decoding happens. @Liliana-60 (or anyone else), can we move kuro#Minoan to a Linear A entry? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)