Revitalizing CLDR for the Long Tail

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The First Seven Steps to ’Core XML Data’

• Exemplar characters (in proposal)• LTR, RTL, other direction (in proposal)• Plural rules• Script/country data (in proposal)• More country data (in proposal)• Casing (in proposal)• Collation (in proposal)

The ‘Plurals’ Long Straw

Only a Few Translations Away

“Standard Time”“Daylight Time”

“Gregorian Calendar”“Standard Sort Order”

“Western Digits”

Tradi&onal Sources

The Easier Remainder

• 50 other easy-to-find transla1ons• (1) Name of language in language - easy• (38) Some 12 month names and 7 day names require transla1ons

• Rela1vely easy to find transla1on in dic1onaries or other good references.• (7) for day, week, month, year, hour, minute, second

• With caveats• Some transla1on may need a liIle more sophis1ca1on depending on use• Abbrevia1ons may not be a concept in a given language

Automated Sources?curl http://api.panlex.org/v2/expr -d '{ "uid": "eng-000", "txt": "January" }'

curl http://api.panlex.org/v2/expr -d '{ "uid": "apw-000", "trans_expr": 452754 }

January = “Dził Bilátahgai"

February = ”Múhshchiiʼ"

March = "Tʼąąʼ Náchil"

April = "Tʼąąʼ Náchoh"

May = "Itsáh Hashkēē"

June = "Itsáh Bizhaazh"

July = "Niiʼ Dichíhé"

August = "Binestʼántsʼǭǭsé"

September = "Binestʼánchoh"

October = "Gha̜a̜zhįʼ"

November = "Kǫʼ Bąąh Náłkʼas"

December = "Zas Nłtʼees"