Re: declination of CLDR language names‏

[Philippe Verdy]

Don't forget other contextual forms, such as mutations of initials or
finals depending on the preceding or following words, or the alternation of
these words.

For example with
- contraction of articles like « le » vs « l’ » or « de l’ » vs. « de la »
(typical for French of Italian)
- the required contraction of « de le » to « du » (French, Italian...),
- adverbs like « ne » vs. « n’ », in French, or the «-n’t » suffix vs « not
» word, or «-not» gluing after « can » verb in English
- verbs or auxiliaries like « am » vs. «’m », or «’s » vs. « is », or «’re
» vs. « are », or «’ve » vs. « have », or «’d » vs. « would » in English
- particles like the genitive suffix « ’s » in English...
- contextual mutation of capitals over articles that are part of a proper
name (e.g. « à » + « Le Mans » -> « au Mans »)
- orthographic addition of particles between words only for phonologic
purpose (like "-t-" in French between a conjugated verb with final vowels
and a subject pronoun also starting by a vowel like « il » in French)

These mutations/contractions/additions are very language-specific and
require specific lookup rules.


2014-11-11 13:55 GMT+01:00 Patrick Andries <patrick.andries at xcential.com>:

> Does anybody know what is happening/hashappened with L20n which tried, I
> believe, to address challenges like declension ?
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/
> L20n/Localization_Use_Cases
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> P. A.
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