Common-voice: Language name for Kabyle Shows the language code

[mozillakab]

Common Voice web site shows the language iso code rather than the native name 'Taqbaylit'

[Gregoor]

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately for getting the native name, we currently use a libary based on ISO 639-1 which doesn't contain Kabyle. What we should do to support Kabyle and many other languages is to write a script that gets all the native names from their respective fluent files.

[mozillakab]

Does this mean we can't get Kabyle on Common Voice for now? Most tools, systems, applications nowadays, works with ISO-369-2,

[zbraniecki]

What would be even better is to use CLDR which has translation for Kabyle :)

For example: https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-localenames-modern would solve it for you.

The overlay to get additional translations from fluent resources is something I believe would be of additional value and allow us to also provide translations for language names not in CLDR, or overwrite in case we have a better translation, but I think that starting with CLDR should fix the issue at hand.

[Gregoor]

@belkacem77 we absolutely can get Kabyle on Common Voice, we just have to make some adjustments (due to some wrong assumptions I made, that I wasn't aware of).

That's great, thanks @zbraniecki! I hope I'll find the time to get it in next week, unless someone else is willing 🙃

[kdavis-mozilla]

@zbraniecki @Gregoor I love it when a plan comes together. CLDR is what Michael and I ended up settling upon for identifying languages and their dialects.

[mozillakab]

@Gregoor , thanks, finally we can go on with our corpora.
@zbraniecki , I think the link you gave is about ISO 639-1 language list.
CLDR full locale names id here : https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-localenames-full/tree/master/main/kab.

[zbraniecki]

Also, a bit of my team's promo, but I hope in context :) We just published Internationalization docs for Mozilla developers - https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/intl/index.html - should have most answers wrt. working with locales :)

[Gregoor]

🙂 (sorry that it took some time)

[mozillakab]

Sorry, I forgot to close :) thanks for job