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Moroccan Darija (Moroccan Arabic) Adition

Asked by tariqd

Hello,

We will be very grateful if you could add Moroccan Darija (also known as Moroccan Arabic) to the list of available languages.
The ISO 639-3 code is ary and the language has only 2 plural forms (Singular and plural).

Thanks a lot,

Tariq

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

I've added it at https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/ary using the official name from ISO-639-3 "Moroccan Arabic".

I would like you to confirm that singular is used only for 1 (and not, eg. for both 0 and 1).

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tariqd (tariq-daouda) said : 		#2

Thank you! I'm not sure if i understand well your question, but it's as in english :
There is no car, There is a car. The singular is used when the quantity is 0 as well as one.

I've also seen that there's a message on https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/ary informing that Moroccan arabic is not registered as being spoken in any country. Altough it is not recognised by Morocco it is effectively the most spoken language in the country as well as in moroccan communities all over the world.

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tariqd (tariq-daouda) said : 		#3

Could you please also change the directionality to LTR? as we plan to do the translation using latin script.

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#4

I've changed the text direction. As far as the plural forms, it depends on how it's used with numbers inside the text.

I.e. in English, you would write "There are 0 cars" instead of "There is 0 car", so 0 uses the plural. This is common in translation of software because you've got messages like "Copying %d files".

See https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+faq/254 for details.

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tariqd (tariq-daouda) said : 		#5

Thank you, In that case you would use the plural as in english.