merge CLDR extension to core
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	Apr 25 2021, 5:27 PM

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Currently information about languages is scattered in many places (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abstract_Wikipedia/Representation_of_languages) and CLDR extension only makes it worse (cf T190129: Consolidate language metadata into a 'language-data' library and use in MediaWiki). Also this extension provides no user-facing features by itself. Proposed:

We create a PHP library directly derived from CLDR data
Local overrides and names of languages not in CLDR may either moved to MediaWiki core, language-data or the new library created above

If above results in one new library, it is essentially a Librarization of CLDR extension.

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T28751 Extensions that should really be core functionality (tracking)
		Open		None	T281067 merge CLDR extension to core

That task intended to eliminate one place that information about languages is stored. This may eliminate another.

It kind of makes sense to have all language related data in one library, and that would be language-data.