Revised article "Languages using right-to-left scripts" lists 12 scripts and over 200 languages using RTL scripts in the modern day, plus rough Ethnologue data on countries & speaker numbers. w3.org/International/questio…
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Do we have Kurdish people writing in RTL writing system in Bakur (“north” in Kurdish)? I don’t think so! We are using Kurdish [kmr] only for Latin one (LTR) as far as I know. @sina_ahm @Sarchia_ @HawreHosseini @AsoMahmudi @Herormo @
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I see. But I think the issue is not with Bakur but Badînî (mostly spoken in Duhok and around) which uses RTL. It also has a historical status. So, "kmr-Arab" and "kmr-Latn" look totally fine to me for standardization.
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Hmm! Right. But still looking strange. So many subdivisions!
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Sounds like the idea of standardization :-)
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I like the standardization. I wish we could do this on a GitHub repo, so all could be referred there. From zero, I mean from taking Kurdish as a Macro-language all the way down to these subdivisions. It is really essential to have a valid reference.
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ISO 639-1 and 2 perfectly do the job. They are also widely used in linked data. We will need some additional codes for variants and sub dialects though which requires some research.
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Aren’t they so general? We need all the subs also if the were not included yet.
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Replying to @0xdolan @sina_ahm @r12a @Sarchia_ @HawreHosseini @AsoMahmudi @Herormo
For the Web we recommend using BCP47. See r12a.github.io/app-subtags/?… That can be extended to support variants, if necessary. The usage data came from Ethnologue. I guess Arabic is used in Syria, Iraq & Persia? r12a.github.io/app-subtags/?…

Jun 17, 2022 · 2:11 PM UTC

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Replying to @webi18n @sina_ahm @r12a @Sarchia_ @HawreHosseini @AsoMahmudi @Herormo
It is but Kurdish (based on formal language in each country) using their writing system. In Turkey, Kurds using Latin one (LTR). In Syria, Kurds using both (RTL) and (LTR). But most focuses are on LTR. In Iran, Iraq (RTL) is the main one.
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Replying to @webi18n @sina_ahm @r12a @Sarchia_ @HawreHosseini @AsoMahmudi @Herormo
Arabic mainly will be used in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Lebanon, etc. Persians using Arabic writing system mainly. We (Kurdish) as one of our writing systems, using Arabic.