Sm8900
November 22, 2022, 9:37pm
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I greatly appreciate the inclusion of all the translations in the initial post on this thread. however, I don’t know which specific languages correspond to these various abbreviations, and I don’t know where I could look up this data.
I tried searching for these abbreviations on google, but no results came up that were relevant. I would appreciate some help on this, tagging @Zuz_WMF , @Qgil-WMF , @NPhan_WMF . thanks.
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E be so. You make I feel de Gh Pidgin waa. @NanaYawBotar den @Xibitgh come spy something for here.
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Sm8900
November 22, 2022, 10:03pm
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hi. ok, thanks for your reply. I see now that GPE means “Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE).” below is the link which seems to provide some useful data on this. thanks for your helpful reply.
Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE), is a Ghanaian English-lexifier pidgin also known as Pidgin, Broken English, and Kru English (kroo brofo in Akan). GhaPE is a regional variety of West African Pidgin English spoken in Ghana, predominantly in the southern capital, Accra, and surrounding towns. It is confined to a smaller section of society than other West African creoles, and is more stigmatized, perhaps due to the importance of Twi, an Akan dialect, often spoken as lingua franca . GhaPE can be ...
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@DaSupremo , vim dey… mak you invite @Sm8900 make she join wan na next meet up.
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If the language code has two characters, it is probably ISO-639-1 .
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yeah we for promote GH pidgin
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Or maybe this is helpful. This language code comes from Discourse themselves, for languages supported by the interface setting.
ar = Arabic
be = Belarusian
bg = Bulgarian
bs_BA = Bosnian
ca = Catalan
cs = Czech
da = Danish
de = German
el = Greek
en = English (US)
en_GB = English (UK)
es = Spanish, Castilian
et = Estonian
fa_IR = Persian
fi = Finnish
fr = French
gl = Galician
he = Hebrew
hr = Croatian
hu = Hungarian
hy = Armenian
id = Indonesian
it = Italian
ja = Japanese
ko = Korean
lt = Lithuanian
lv = Latvian
nb_NO = Norwegian Bokmål
nl = Dutch
pl_PL = Polish
pt = Portuguese
pt_BR = Portuguese Brazil
ro = Romanian
ru = Russian
sk = Slovak
sl = Slovenian
sq = Albanian
sr = Serbian
sv = Swedish
sw = Swahili
te = Telugu
th = Thai
tr_TR = Turkish
uk = Ukrainian
ur = Urdu
vi = Vietnamese
zh_CN = Chinese (Simplified)
zh_TW = Chinese (Taiwan)
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Hello @Kwameghana you fi join de community for here (Ghanaian Pidgin Wikimedians Community - Meta ) cos we want make we develop de Gh Pidgin. Thanks