Re: Guarani Nhandeva translation

["Boca" <boca riseup net>]

  Hello Tommi and everybody.

  First of all, sorry about the word "traduced" on the last email... I
did't knew about the negative meaning of it... I should be used
"tranlated". Thanks for the tip... =] ... and sorry about the "language
crime" that i do with my english... =P

  Well, actually we know that exists a lot of dialects spoken on Brazil
and Latin America in general. The indians dialects don't fill nationals
frontiers, generaly, although some countries accept some lenguages like
officials. Guarani Nhandeva is a dialect sponked in some areas of south
of Brazil

  Guarani, for example, is a national language on Paraguay. Or, in others
words, an specific "guarani" is considered an official language on
Paraguay. It seems, to us, that they'll wants to use gn code. So,
talking with Moreno (another guy from the translation team) about the
code we decided to use gn_BR instead of gn because don't looks fair use
the "general code" when there is a lot of "guaranis dialects" spoken on
latin america.

  I don't know if i answer the questions. Sorry if not.

  Matheus...


O indivíduo  Tommi Vainikainen tinha escrito isso:
> On 2006-04-07T04:31:50+0300, phhigino gmail com wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Boca <boca riseup net> wrote: >
>>> Thanks for the explication about the languages codes. So, we decided to
>>> choose the gn_BR code, ok? Could be?
>>
>> Christian, can gn_BR be used or just gn is preferable? (Matheus, this
>> is just to make it clear with GTP coordinators)
>
> Hello Boca,
>
> just before Christian or someone else asks these same questions about
> the code, can you explain to us (because you known much more than
> other people here) where is Guarani spoken and what kind of dialects
> or variants there exists.
>
> If I understood correct Nhandeva is the name of the language in
> Guarani and Guarani is the name of the language in English.
>
> English wikipedia does not tell me anything about dialects[1]. If
> there is only one language that is almost universally spoken
> similarly, then it must use code "gn". But if Guarani in Brazil is
> somehow different than Guarani spoken somewhere else, then "gn_BR" is
> the correct code.
>
> So please tell us about dialects and/or regions and rationale why you
> would like to use code gn_BR, or should you use simply gn.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_language
>
> --
> Tommi Vainikainen
>


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