Talk:Northern Sámi orthography

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Bad translation
The translation of Rask's book title "Ræsonneret lappisk sproglære efter den sprogart, som bruges af fjældlapperne i Porsangerfjorden i Finmarken: En omarbejdelse af Prof. Knud Leems Lappiske grammatica" into "Reasonable Lappish Language Learning According to the Language Used by the Mountain Lapps in the Porsangerfjord in Finnmark: A recast of Prof. Knud Leem's Lappian Grammar" seems machine-made and quite incorrect/inaccurate.

"Ræsonneret" refers to the fact that the grammar was reasoned by Rask from other sources, not from his own first-hand studies. I am not sure how best to translate this into English, and would appreciate help here. "sproglære" is not "language learning", but "grammar", and I also doubt the choice of "recast" as a good translation of "omarbeidelse". Tynnoel (talk) 21:21, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

History of Northern Sami orthography?
The current content of this page predominantly focuses on tracing the historical evolution of the orthography, rather than providing a comprehensive description of the orthography itself. It appears that the article would benefit from a restructuring wherein the historical context becomes a subsection within a broader article that thoroughly describes the contemporary orthography and its functioning.

The article lacks an explanation of the current orthographic system, including the usage of individual letters, quantities, and other aspects such as diacritics, punctuation, and instances of ambiguous spelling. It could be useful to reorganise the content into distinct sections, such as "Letters," "Diacritics," "Quantity," "Punctuation Conventions," "History of the orthography," and so on.

While have only received formal education in general and historical linguistics, as well as Finnish linguistics, I could make an attempt at rewriting the article in a way that describes the current systems as well as keeping the information present in the article at present, using resources that seem reliable. I don't think I can do this alone but it could be useful to at least restructure the page in a way that matches the others in the Orthographies of the world's languages template, if it's ok to do so. IlmarisenVasara 13:27, 29 August 2023 (UTC)