Fifty-six entries -- fifty-three African languages and three European ones --
for populating a group's dialects without typing each into a three-field form.
Nothing reads it yet; the plan it belongs to is docs/african-dialect-catalogue.md.
The unit is a language *in a country* rather than a language, because that is
what a dialect is here: `MantraDialect` is (name, country, code), so Kiswahili
is three entries and that is the point rather than a duplication.
(code, country) is the identity and the name is deliberately not part of it.
Nothing anywhere makes a dialect unique -- the id is a content hash including
createdAt, there is no index, and the rows are quorum-signed so they cannot be
rewritten -- so duplication has to be prevented at proposal time, and of the
three fields the name is the only one that is a matter of spelling.
Codes are ISO 639-1 where the language has one and 639-3 otherwise, rather than
639-3 throughout: a uniform `sot` would disagree with the `st` that every room
which used the form has already signed.
Two decisions a reviewer should look at. `lua` names Tshiluba (Luba-Kasai);
639-1's `lu` is Luba-Katanga, a different language of the same country, and
taking the two-letter code because it was there would have named the wrong one.
And the three European languages are a list of their own rather than lines
buried in the African one, so dropping them is one edit.
It lives outside ui/ on purpose. m3-audit scans ui/ and strings.xml for string
literals and title case, and "Northern Sotho" is title case for the same reason
m3-title-case.py keeps a SAMPLE set of proper nouns -- reference data out of
reach is cheaper and more honest than an m3-string-exempt marker on a file that
is not UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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