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bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2022 19:07:27 +0300 |
> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 21:14:04 +0530
> Cc: 55529@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I think this entry should not be together with the old Indic scripts,
> it should be separate from them. Especially if you intend to add more
> scripts/languages used in the Philippines.
>
> Tagalog and other philippine scripts also descend from Brahmi. They are also
> superseded by the Roman
> script, so I would consider them as old.
Fine with me, if you insist. But I raised a brow when I saw that,
FWIW.
And if you are talking mainly about a script, then its name is
Baybayin, no? Tagalog is a language, not a script, right?
> I wonder whether we should call the language-environment "Tagalog".
> Why not "Filipino", which AFAIU is the official language name?
> Perhaps also for the input method.
>
> AFAICT from the internet, Tagalog and Filipino are two different languages,
> Filipino is Tagalog with foreign
> loanwords, for e.g. the Filipino word for a chair is "silya" (from Spanish)
> while in Tagalog it is "salumpuwit".
Is this really so important? The Wikipedia article says that Filipino
is a version of Tagalog standardized by the constitution of 1987.
Wouldn't it be better to support a modern language used nowadays and
not just its older version?
Looking at this another way: what will an Emacs user expect to find in
Emacs as the supported language for the Philippines?
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/19
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/20
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/20
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/20
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/21
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/21
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/21
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/21
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/22
- bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/22