Talk:Akhvakh language

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Native name, capitalisation edit

The nativename field should be written like it is in the native language. As example, German is written first-uppercase, so it's "Deutsch". Spanish is written all lowercase, so it's "español".

For Akhvakh, it's currently written in uppercase. But this has been incorrect for other languages before, so this might be incorrect here too. Checking the French Wikipedia for fr:Akhvakh gives both variants. The infobox gives first-uppercase, but the article starts with it being all lowercase. But as shown for the common language Spanish on the French Wikipedia: fr:Espagnol, the infobox can still be incorrectly written with first-uppercase, but the article text will still be correct.

Furthermore, languages of the same family usually write the same for language names. Romance languages write languages in all lowercase, Turkic languages write first-upper. Germanic languages except for the West Germanic branch (German, English, Dutch, ...) writes in all lowercase. But when checking the Andic language family, the names are written both ways. The parent language Andi is written in lowercase, the child language Karata has no info. The grandchild languages Botlikh is in first-upper, Godoberi is written both ways with all lowercase in the article text, and Chamalal is written in all lowercase.

Nativename is entered more often in first-upper when it should be all lowercase, than entered in all lowercase when it should be first-upper. This from personal experience by me correcting the casing for languages using Unicode CLDR as source. Which should be a trustworthy source. So I would say that it's more likely that the languages of the Andic family are all in lowercase, and just incorrectly written in first-upper in the infobox. Unless a source is proving otherwise, I would say that this is likely the case.

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