Re: Berber domain name?

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Kaixo!

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:31:33AM -0800, Lameen Souag wrote:

> I'd like to suggest the creation of a domain name for Berber.  The releva=
nt
> ISO codes are:
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> KAB    Kabyle
> BER    Berber (Other)
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> but TMZ or MZ would be much better, because the term "Berber" is no longer
> politically correct, and most Berbers prefer "Tamazight" (and most Kabyles

The ISO *codes* doesn't have to match the language *name*.
The codes are just a an arbitrary two (or three) letter combination,
and as long as the language doesn't change, the code should remain the
same.
Now, the language can be referred as Tamazight with "ber" as the code,
that is not a problem.

> see their language as a dialect of Berber/Tamazight).  There is plentiful
> web activity in Berber (mainly in the Kabyle, Rifi, and Tachelhit dialect=
s),
> and if this domain name existed, I believe contributions would start comi=
ng
> in.  I know several people who would be interested in participating mysel=
f.

It could be needed to create two domains, as tamazight can be written in
latin alphabet (the most common in Algeria and overseas) or in native
tifinagh alphabet.
Well, tifinagh isn't yet encoded in Unicode, but hopefully it will be
there for unicode 4.1 or 4.2; in any case it will be available in the
future, so it should be thought about.

Another solution could be to use the same domain, and have two pages for
each article, on in latin the other in tifinagh (with a small converter
program it should be quite easy to generate them), in a way similar of
how chinese wikipedia does.

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