[Foundation-l] Cherokee Wikipedia Name Suggestion

Wed Jul 12 10:53:46 UTC 2006

Most Wikimedia projects don't translate "Wikipedia", "Wiktionary", and
"Wikimedia", they transliterate them. Even non-Latin alphabets do
this: Russian Wikipedia is called "Википедию" which transliterates as
Ve-I-Ka-I-Pe-Ye-De-I-Ya (those are the names of the letters, at
least). Does Cherokee have some kind of formal transliteration system?

On 12/07/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> The name should be:
>
> ᏗᎪᏪᎵ ᎦᏣᏄᎳ
>
> (digoweli gatsanula)
> "the books = pedia " " that are fast = wiki "
>
> to match the actual meanings of the words "wiki" and "pedia".
>
> The current name of the site, while catchy, is not accurate for the
> language, and was synthesized.
>
> Just a suggestion...
>
> Jeff
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