While Australia has some 300 native languages, Papua New Guinea has some
800...
Yes I support entering the native language .. possibly both name:aus and
a more specific language code where known (a duplication)?
There are probably places where language groups over lap and there may
be more than one name. Humm which one to use as name:aus could be a
problem.
Should the English language ones be recorded as name:eng=Ayers Rock ?
I think they may be entered as alt_name, possibly they also should be
recorded as name:eng too (a duplication).
The wiki needs to be changed to reflect this.. after some discussion.
On 27-Jan-18 02:23 AM, Michael wrote:
You need :-
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
Don’t forget to select ‘N’ as it only shows the ones starting with the
letter selected.
*From:*David Dean [mailto:dd...@ieee.org]
*Sent:* Friday, 26 January 2018 10:34 PM
*To:* Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
*Cc:* OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org>
*Subject:* Re: [talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names
Andy,
Absolutely. If the more specific language code is known, it should be
used.
Do you know where a list of these language codes for Australian
Indigenous languages might be found? It took me long enough to find
the aus code on
https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes. 'nys' isn't
listed on either of them.
I'm no expert (I'm trying to learn more), but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages seems to
suggest that most of Australia can be considered to belong to the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pama%E2%80%93Nyungan_languages, but I
can't seem to find any sort of language code for that group.
- David
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 22:28 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
<mailto:a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>> wrote:
On 26 January 2018 at 12:09, David Dean <dd...@ieee.org
<mailto:dd...@ieee.org>> wrote:
> I've done a little research, and added the following
> Please use the name:aus (aus is the general ISO639-2 code for
Australian
> Aboriginal Languages) to indicate the indigenous names of places.
While I strongly support the recording of indigenous names, with a
language code, surely more specific codes should be used where
possible? For instance, 'nys' for Noongar (in WA)?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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