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Add language code ja-Latn for Lexemes
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in addition to T195816:

Japanese is often written in latin script:

example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L346031

ja了解
ja-kanaロジャー
ja-latnRyōkai

Some latin japanese strings are currently tagged with ja-x-Q53979348 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53979348)

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Mbch331 added subscribers: Amire80, jhsoby, Mbch331.

@Loominade Monolingual codes aren't used for Lexemes. Request is to add them for Lexemes. I'll rename the ticket.
@Amire80 @jhsoby What do you say?

Mbch331 renamed this task from Add monolingual language code ja-Latin to Add language code ja-Latin for Lexemes.Nov 11 2020, 2:49 PM
Bugreporter renamed this task from Add language code ja-Latin for Lexemes to Add language code ja-Latn for Lexemes.Nov 11 2020, 9:03 PM

@Loominade Any particular reason why P2125 (Revised Hepburn romanization) can't be added to forms as appropriate, in lieu of this language code?

There are multiple romanisation systems for Japanese and the current ja-x-Q53979348 lemmas are a mixture of them, so I think statements on forms (Revised Hepburn romanisation for Revised Hepburn, transliteration for other systems) are more appropriate than adding ja-latn.

(Also, this example looks like it needs splitting. The ja text says "ryōkai" while the ja-kana text says "rojā".)