Mistakes and inconsistencies in data/territory_languages.json

[petermaris]

Hello,

there are some mistakes and inconsistencies in the data/territory_languages.json in the iD editor, which define the primary used language of the country ("name:XY" tag).

Link to the file: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/develop/data/territory_languages.json

• In Algeria (dz), Morocco (ma) and Tunisia (tn) the local vernacular language (arq, ary, aeb) is selected as primary language instead of Arabic. However Arabic (ar) should be default since it is the primary written language and the official language. In Switzerland Swiss Alemannic and in Austria local Bavarian is the primary vernacular language, however the primary written language is Standard German (de) and this is correctly listed. An informal dialect should not be selected as the primary language of a country in iD.

• In Libya minority languages (e.g. Berber) are missing (jbn, taq, tuq), which are spoken in Libya and some of which are recognised by the government.

• In Pakistan Western Punjabi is missing (pnb), instead a nearly unused tag (pa-Arab) is listed. name:pnb in OSM >12000 times used, name:pa-Arab only 150 times used. In Iran Southern Azerbaijani (azb) is missing, which is over >12000 times used in OSM (name:azb).

• In the Western Sahara (EH) Spanish (es) is missing as seconary language, despite being an official language.

• In Germany (de) the language list is completely irrational. Why list French (fr), while there are nearly no French speakers? Why list Croatian (hr) and if it is listed, why is it before Polish which has much more speakers in Germany? Why is Kurdish (ku) listed, while Arabic (ar) is missing, which has much more speakers in Germany (ca 1 million). And why is Croatian listed, but not Serbian (sr) or Serbo-Croatian (sh)? Who created this list and what's the logic behind? The list can't be backed by the language statistics which I found for Germany.

• In Finland Swedish is listed behind English, despite being an official language equal to Finnish and with more native speakers than English. So Swedish should be listed before English. Sami languages are missing.

It would be nice if this could be corrected.

With best regards
Peter Maris