Recently, a request was made on translatewiki.net to change native name of Southern Balochi (bcc) language:
More details: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support#Request_for_change_name_bcc
Addressing this request would require making a change in the following repositories/files:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fix native name of bcc language | mediawiki/core | master | +0 -0 |
Change 952443 had a related patch set uploaded (by EpicPupper; author: EpicPupper):
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix native name of bcc language
Other than the request at translatewiki, is there any other source for this new name?
See the section "Determining the autonym" at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Adding_and_removing_languages
Unfortunately, there's probably no source for the current name either, but it doesn't mean that it should just be changed based on nothing but one user's request.
Change 952443 abandoned by EpicPupper:
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix native name of bcc language
Reason:
@Amire80 Makran is a region along the southern coast of Pakistani and Iranian Balochistan, and Makrani is the major dialect associated with that region and with Balochi as spoken across the gulf in Oman. See this source for example: https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/collett/frontmatter.html Makrani is definitely a more widely recognized and used name for a variety of Balochi than the current autonym given to bcc.
Why the four languages codes granted to this one language use cardinal directions is a mystery to me. In the source above, Makrani and Rakhshani (the major "northern" dialect in Pakistan) are both described as Western Balochi dialects. Most dialects are to the south and/or to the west of another dialect, so in theory most of them could be called southern and/or western dialects.