Common-voice: Add Basaa language for collection

[ftyers]

Could you please add collection for Basaa (ISO-639: bas) ? Also tracking this through a Discourse post.

[MichaelKohler]

Happy to add this to the Sentence Collector once it's in Pontoon.

[ftyers]

Here is the information for Pontoon from Discourse:

    What Mozilla product are you hoping to localise? Keep in mind that
    Firefox desktop is a rather large project which can potentially take a long
    time for a full localisation to ship.

Common Voice

    Which language code should be used? (ISO-639-1, ISO-639-3, country code).

bas

    How many plural forms are in the language? To give an example,
    how would you translate the following phrases:

        0 rocks, tɔ̀ ŋgɔ̀k tɔ̀ yàda
        1 rock, ŋgɔ̀k yàda
        2 rocks, màŋgɔ̀k mâ
        3 rocks, màŋgɔ̀k maa
        4 rocks, màŋgɔ̀k manâ
        5 rocks, màŋgɔ̀k mátân
        10 rocks, jǒm li ŋgɔ̂k
        20 rocks, mòm mâ ma maŋgɔ̀k
        100 rocks, mbogôl màŋgɔ̀k
        1000 rocks, hìkóó hi máŋgɔ̀k
        I see 0 rocks on the ground,mɛ̀ ńtɛ̄hɛ̄ ɓe mɛ̂ tɔ̀ ŋgɔ̀k yàdá hīsī
        I see 1 rock on the ground,mɛ̀ ńtɛ̄hɛ̄ ŋgɔ̀k yàda hīsī
        I see 10 rock on the ground,mɛ̀ ńtɛ̄hɛ̄ jom li maŋgɔ̀k hīsī
        I see rocks on the ground,mɛ̀ ńtɛ̄hɛ̄ maŋgɔ̀k hīsī

    Are you hoping to localise alone or do you have friends that will join
    you? For sustainability of the localisation (because we’re always releasing
    new versions of Firefox products that will need localising), we’d prefer to
    only ship new locales that have more than one person sustaining them.

There are many people in the community who will participate. Basa is a community of approximately 300 000 speakers.

[ftyers]

@mbransn @phirework Hi both, could you let us know if anything here is missing? Thanks!

[peiying2]

Thank you @ftyers for putting in the request. I have a couple of questions:

• Singular and plural: I notice that 0, 1, and 10 share the same word while the rest use a different word for rock. Is there another language the person knows that is similar to Basaa in terms the singular/plural rules?
• Need a person who is going to work in Pontoon, making contribution directly there. The person needs to create an account so I can assign him/her as the community manager and share other some basic docs to get it started.

[ftyers]

It is like any of the Bantu languages (isiZulu, Kiswahili etc.).

The translations all have the same word for "rock" ŋgɔ̀k, but the plural is a prefix, e.g. maŋgɔ̀k. It is just that in some cases the number comes before and in others after. The translation for "zero" uses something like "not any at all" instead of the numeral "zero".

The user in Pontoon should be Emmanuel Ngue Um.

[peiying2]

The language and the Common Voice project are added in Pontoon: https://pontoon.mozilla.org/bas/. We now need Emmanuel to create an account in Pontoon so I can add him to the project and reach out to him on tool and process.

[ftyers]

Fantastic thanks @peiying2 ! I'll get in contact and let him know.

[ftyers]

@MichaelKohler could you enable it in sentencecollector ? It's in Pontoon now: https://pontoon.mozilla.org/bas/ Thanks!

[MichaelKohler]

@ftyers will do, forgot to ask before: what is the correct native name (as we show both English and the native language name)?

[ftyers]

@MichaelKohler Ɓàsàa should work

[MichaelKohler]

@ftyers done

[ftyers]

@peiying2 Emmanuel has created an account, could you add him as a manager? https://pontoon.mozilla.org/bas/common-voice/contributors/ Thanks! :)

[peiying2]

Done! I have approved the strings he has submitted. I will follow up with instructions for using Pontoon, CV project info and community guidelines, :). Feel free to close this issue if nothing else is needed.

[ftyers]

Ltgm!

[ftyers]

Oops, one last thing, could we get bas onto https://commonvoice.allizom.org/bas ? Thanks!

[phirework]

Hey folks, added this to the Dev server, and it'll meander its way to production with the next release. You can't really tell right now since it's barely localized, but if you look at https://dev.commonvoice.allizom.org/bas/languages you'll see Basaa in the list of in-progress languages. Thanks for the coordination both!