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Bug 17546 - Correct Tongan language native name to "lea faka-Tonga"
Correct Tongan language native name to "lea faka-Tonga"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
1.15.x
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Purodha Blissenbach
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?titl...
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Reported: 2009-02-18 00:20 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2009-02-18 00:31 UTC (History)
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Description Purodha Blissenbach 2009-02-18 00:20:27 UTC
Years ago probably someone said: Tongan = faka-Tonga, without too much thinking, and since that time that error has permeated into all wikis. But it is incorrect. In English perhaps a [countryname] can be an adjective to any noun (French cheese, English county, Samoan people, Tongan house), or lacking the noun, it can act as a noun itself, meaning the language of that country. Not so in Tongan. Fakatonga means Tongan as an adjective and never as a noun. Tongan language therefore must be translated as lea fakatonga (or lea faka-Tonga, the jury is out on that, but since fakatonga can also means 'south', perhaps the latter form should be preferred).

As such: can some priviliged sysop change 'Faka-Tonga' into 'Lea faka-Tonga' everywhere ?

Tauʻolunga 07:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Tau%CA%BBolunga

http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&diff=1075002&oldid=1074805
Comment 1 Purodha Blissenbach 2009-02-18 00:31:06 UTC
Done with Revision 47405

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