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Also, the Wolayta people are very hard workers. —Preceding
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68.100.118.25 (
talk) 20:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)reply
Spelling
This article now uses four different spellings of the name: Welayta, Wolayta, Wolaitta, and Wolaytta. To be consistent, which one should we use? Anyone have some authoritative sources?
Lesgles (
talk) 21:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)reply
Picking this matter back up, @
Pete unseth: If another spelling would be better suited for the article's title, then the article should be moved to that title. However, there's a strong preference for consistency within an article (whether in the matter of U.S. versus U.K. spellings, MDY versus DMY dates, BC/AD versus BCE/CE, and so forth), so the spelling used in the title should continue through the article (except, of course, when alternative spellings are being listed).
Though you can probably move the article yourself, I suspect there could be a diversity of opinions on this, as there often are when there's a question of rendering non-English place names into English and/or transcription from other writing systems. You might want to list this for discussion following the procedure explained at
WP:Requested moves.
Largoplazo (
talk) 00:07, 7 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Spelling words from other languages when writing in English is always inexact. The Wolaytta language has five vowels. The use of the letter <e> in the language is used to represent the same sound as in Spanish and Italian. The first vowel sound in the name of the language is [o]. I do not know how to fix all of this in Wikipedia articles, but these are linguistic facts. I say this having written a book about Ethiopian languages. There are arguments about whether to spell it with the letter i or y , but I will not address that.
Pete unseth (
talk) 21:16, 7 October 2020 (UTC)reply
I agree with everything you said, and indicated as much in what I last wrote. But you haven't given any reaction to my comments on maintaining consistency.
Largoplazo (
talk) 21:21, 7 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Mengistu
Isn't Mengistu an Amhara? His wikipedia page seems to claim this... Could someone share a source that points out he was Wolayta? — Preceding
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Awale-Abdi (
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contribs) 09:37, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply