From kde-i18n-doc  Wed Dec 30 21:19:08 2009
From: Marek Laane <bald () smail ! ee>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:19:08 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Freeze exception: two new messages in desktop_l10n.po
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kolmapäev, 30. detsember 2009 22:58:51 kirjutas Chusslove Illich:
> > [: Marek Laane :]
> > You can but maybe it does need some explanation? Is it some dialect or
> > what? (There is Wikipedia article for Shtokavian dialect which includes
> > something about "ijekavian" but I couldn't understand exavtly what...
> 
> Will do. Serbian is officially (as in recognized by linguists, reflected in
> dictionaries, school literature, etc.) spoken and written with two very
> similar dialects, the Ekavian and Ijekavian (which are both in the
> Shtokavian group of dialects). Also officially, either dialect can be
> written using either Cyrillic or Latin alphabet. So we have the following
> official combinations, with names in KDE:
> 
>   Serbian Ekavian in Cyrillic script   --> Serbian (sr)
>   Serbian Ekavian in Latin script      --> Serbian Latin (sr@latin)
>   Serbian Ijekavian in Cyrillic script --> Serbian Ijekavian (sr@ijekavian)
>   Serbian Ijekavian in Latin script    --> Serbian Ijekavian Latin
>  (sr@ijekavianlatin)
> 
> Ekavian is normally dropped from the name because it has about 4 times the
> native speakers of Ijekavian. Cyrillic is normally dropped from the name
> because it's the more traditional script, Latin being of newer origin.
> 
> (Perhaps I could also note that -j- in Ijekavian is pronounced like
> German j, or English y in some positions.)
> 

Thanks, it was even more profound explanation I could expect :-)