User talk:Jwanohalo

Soranî title of Yol
You added ڕێگە as the Soranî title of Yol. But the Soranî Wikipedia has simply ڕێ. (See ڕێ (فیلم).) I don't know if there is a standard for romanization of Soranî, but it would be good to also add a rendition in Latin script (Rê?) --Lambiam 20:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Lambiam It should be "ڕێگا" and not "ڕێگە" or "ڕێ", because "ڕێگا" means "Road" just as Yol in Turkish mean "Road", so it is an exact translation of the Turkish word into Kurdish. While "ڕێ" mean "Way" or "The Way" and it can describe "Way" of anything, like "Way of the Samurai" or "Way of Living", etc. And "ڕێگە" is Kurdish for just "One Road", in Yol, Yilmaz Guney shows the lives of 5 prisoners, so he mean Road in literal sense and a general term not just "One Road"


 * We cannot ask Yılmaz Güney any longer what he meant, but Turkish yol can very well also mean way. If you look up "way" in an, you'll see that the first translation given is yol. Also, on you can see that the English copyright title is The Way. That is the title under which the world-wide copyright was registered; later, for the release in the US, the English title was changed to The Road.
 * In any case, we should not decide by ourselves what the proper title is in this or that language. That is "original research". Instead, we should use the title as found in reliable sources. Are there such sources with the title in Soranî Kurdish? I see that this article on NRT News on the death of Tarık Akan leaves the Turkish title untranslated. --Lambiam 19:12, 20 September 2016 (UTC)