Add Inuktitut (iu) language to l.d.o

Are the two existing websites making their translation available yet, or would this be the place to unify those efforts?

Now both websites continue on their own and don't share the translation together.

I take that Gábor Hojtsy means there must be an agreement from both the site maintainers to use only l.d.o for translations.

Erm, my understanding is that these sites are regular Drupal sites, and not set up to specifically coordinate the translation, right?

@Gábor: I take that at least one site is running the server for the translations; that is what I understand when J0nathan says when I created the second website I imported the translation from the first one.

Clearly, I could be wrong, and J0nathan just means the site has a link to download the translation template without to have a complete UI as l.d.o has.

Thanks, J0nathan; what you reported clarify the situation. I apologize for my misunderstanding; Gàbor was correct in his assumption.

Ok, I think we should be fine to add this then. I'll get back to this hopefully soon :)

Wups, I've actually already added the language code, but then figured out I'm missing plural formula information, like http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms

I found http://www.tusaalanga.ca/node/160 but that says plurals apply when number of things talked about is >2, which sounds strange. Can you post the plural formula I should use, so I'll continue adding the language. Thanks!

Hi,
Great idea to share the Inuktitut translations. I administer one of the websites JOnathan is referring to. It is www.kativik.qc.ca and we do translate most of the content of the website in Inuktitut. However, the admin is not for the most part translated in Inuktitut.

I live an work in Kuujjuaq which is in Nunavik (the Inuk region in the Northern part of the province of Quebec in Canada). As JOnathan mentions, it would be great to share translations with other websites in our region. I know of one such website getting built right now.

There are however enough differences between the Inuktitut used in Nunavut (the Inuk region in the Northenmost part of Canada but not in the province of Quebec) and here that I am not sure we could share the translations with Nunavut. And http://www.tusaalanga.ca is in Nunavut.

Similar situations probably happened before for other languages with multiple dialects. I wonder how the is usually handled.

In Inuktitut, there is a plural for two and another plural used to talk about more than two of any noun:
a » inuk (person)
b » inuuk (2 people)
c » inuit (3 more more people)

Nunavik used a dialect of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut but all of the Baffin area in Nunavut also uses Eastern Canadian Inuktitut. The way I understand it "ike" would include Nunavut (Eastern part) and Nunavik but as I mentioned, Baffin area inuktitut and what is spoken here in Nunavik is still quite different.

As stated on wikipedia: "The Nunavik dialect (Nunavimmiutitut) is relatively close to the South Baffin dialect, but not identical. Because of the political and physical boundary between Nunavik and Nunavut, Nunavik has separate government and educational institutions from those in the rest of the Inuktitut-speaking world, resulting in a growing standardisation of the local dialect as something separate from other forms of Inuktitut. In the Nunavik dialect, Inuktitut is called Inuttitut."

Ok, waiting for your feedback. Also the above information is not complete on the plurals. We actually need the full formula you compute plurals with as listed for languages on http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms not just the number of variants you have.

Lost interest? Localize.drupal.org would welcome an active team to take this on. (Still need the plural formula first.)

I'm moving this out of "won't fix" just to ask a question...

I notice that Inuktitut is now in the list of languages that I can load a file into. Was this thread addressed in the meantime?

Also, is there a translation .po available anywhere?

@J0nathan: if you .po files with translations that work well, those should theoretically have the right plural formulas in them. Just look at the first dozen or so lines and you'll find it there. Also, better to mark these issues postponed vs. won't fix since someone can come around anytime to want to start off this team and lead the translation.

Is there any update on making a .po available for Inuktitut ?
Thanks.

@j0nathan

Hi Jonathan!

I am going through the localize.drupal.org issue queue for new language requests, trying to move things along. Are you still interested in starting a Inuktitut (iu) language translation group?

If so we still need the plural formula for the Inuktitu language so that we can do this. As Gábor Hojtsy stated in comment #22 you can find this the first few lines of a .po file for the Inuktitu language.

If you are able to provide this information and still want to get a Inuktitu language translation group created please visit this issue on drupal.org and provide the language formular. Also, please make sure to change the status to active so that the needed people will be informed. You can also removed the tag "language abandoned" from the issue.

Greetings,

Frederick

No feedback

@hass: and so? What does closing this request serve? Leaving it here at least provides a way for someone else to find like-minded people who were at least interested to contribute earlier. Hiding it away does not really help anything.

Hi,

Is anyone still interest in Inuktitut?
I'm working on a bunch of Inuktitut/Inuinnaqtun projects and there are many times I find myself translate string-by-string from English-Inuktitut-Inuinnaqtun.
I'd be happy to contribute some help and some translations to this group.

@Jiiro can you confirm the language code / plural formula?

I'm interested in getting this going again. I work in Nunavut, and there is government funding available to translate this language. It helps that Drupal is the CMS of choice for the Government of Nunavut.

Can you give me some advice on what information I need to supply you and the number of words required to translate?
Casey

@Gabor

The language code is "iu" and has 3 plural forms: For 1, for 2 and another for the rest.

You can find informations on this page www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html

What's holding us back to add the new language? the plural formula for this new language.
I am not quite sure, but from what I read, it sounds like a general rule:

• one - singular
• two - first plural
• anything else - other plurals

Does someone know if the same formula like Czech will work?

cs | Czech | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n>=2 && n<=4) ? 1 : 2;

If so, @Gábor Hojtsy can you include the language? BTW @Robert Ngo you're using `ui` as code as well for Inuinnaqtun or the `ikt` (ISO 639-3 https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ikt)

@keboca we're using

iu: Inuktitut
in: Inuinnaqtun

It's used on most Nunavut government websites

https://www.gov.nu.ca/
https://www.elections.nu.ca/

http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_plural_r... doesn't report any plural formula for .po files, which is listed for different languages on Plural Forms, for example.

Gábor Hojtsy asked for a confirmation of the plural formula and the language code.