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Create parser function yielding adjectives for language names.
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Description

In message MediaWiki:Logentry-translationreview-group/ksh, we should have an adjective version of language names. The wording, e.g. "French translation" is much preferred over "translation to French" in this context, but we do not have a way currently to compute adjectives from language codes.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz48635

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:18 AM
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(In reply to comment #1)

Sounds like {{GRAMMAR}} to me.

Meaning that you would create a database of name->adjective conversion in the grammar rules (which seems CLDR job)? Or that you'd support it only for languages where this is just an inflection issue with some universal rules?

What is requested here is highly language specific, those things usually belong to {{GRAMMAR}} or are not done at all in favor of coming with language independent solution.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM

Sounds like something that should eventually be implemented through Lexemes usage. It would be PITA to implement it as is. The task description is forgetting that adjectives can be gendered and declined in many languages, and thus the thing proposed would solve only a very small subset of the thing it is attempting to be about.