Adding support for more new missing languages

[gusbemacbe]

Hello!

Here is the list and follow the screenshots with the result. I will also provide you with a compressed archive of fonts.

List

• New languages:

  • Ancient, extinct and historical languages:
    • Akkadian language using Sumero-Akkadian cuneiforms;
    • Ancient Egyptian language using Egyptian hieroglyphs;
    • Hadramautic language using Ancient South Arabian;
    • Minaean language using Ancient South Arabian;
    • Minoan language using Linear A;
    • Mycenaean Greek using Linear B script;
    • Qatabanian language using Ancient South Arabian;
    • Sabaean language using Ancient South Arabian;
    • Sumerian language using Sumero-Akkadian cuneiforms.
  • Real and living languages:
    • Ainu and Okinawan languages using two Japanese forms;
    • Pontic Greek using Cyrillic, Greek and Latin scripts.
  • Constructed:
    • Klingon using Klingon script (pIqaD).

• New scripts:

  • Ancient South Arabian;
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphs;
  • Klingon script (pIqaD);
  • Linear A;
  • Linear B;
  • Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiforms.

Screenshots

• Ainu and Okinawan:

  

• Ancient Egyptian language:

  

• Klingon using the Klingon script (pIqaD):

  

• Linear A:

  

• Linear B and Mycenaean Greek:

  

• Old South Arabian script:

  

• Pontic Greek using the Cyrillic script:

  

• Pontic Greek using the Greek script:

  

• Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiforms:

  

Get the compressed file of fonts here.

[kontur]

Sorry for the delay in responding to this. I've had a first look at the PR and I think we can cherry pick some of the database additions. Firstly, the PR shouldn't contain changes from files changed in release 0.4.4. Secondly, for the actual language data:

• We may include Klingon (as it has a ISO code), and we can use the Latin transliteration. Is the Latin script considered a transliteration, or can Klingon be properly written in it? I would opt against including the Klingon orthography listed using the PUA endocded alphabet, since it references the PUA code points of one (or several) specific fonts used by the community, but it is not an official language-specific unicode.
• For the ancient scripts I am happy to include them, but I would like to add them with status draft — for the most part I suppose those languages match or use all of the unicode code blocks, but really this sort of info should come from a more authoritative source than wikipedia.

[kontur]

Thank you @gusbemacbe for your contribution! I've added you to the list of contributors in the project as well. The language data you submitted is a very welcome addition. I cleaned up the status and validity a bit more to be in align with the processes of the project, but otherwise have taken over your suggestions. Note that we are using autonyms , as a rule of thumb, as the name and spelling of the language in that orthography. Where none is available it can be omitted, so I have removed autonyms that were written in scripts other than the orthography.