Add Irish keyboard

[seananocoistin]

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• [x] This issue is about one language, and I've changed the title to reflect this

Language support

Irish has feminine and masculine genders for nouns. It is a VSO language. It has different numbers depending on what is being counted or how something is being counted. It has five accented vowels á é í ó ú. Adjectives usually come after the noun and if the noun is feminine, the adjective must match with feminine noun.

Keyboard variants

Qwerty is the normal keyboard for Irish. The only that is important is the need for the accented vowels.

Contribution

I would like to help with adding rules for grammar and spelling.

[andrewtavis]

Thanks so much for the issue, @seananocoistin! Would be great 😊 Let's look into the data first :) I'll see how much is available on Wikidata and report back :)

[andrewtavis]

Hey @seananocoistin 👋 I just ran the data check with our Scribe-Data CLI and it looks like as of now there's no enough data for us to make a particularly helpful keyboard:

> scribe-data t -lang Q9142  # Q9142 is the Wikidata QID for Irish
Returning total counts for Q9142 data types...

Language             Data Type                 Total Wikidata Lexemes   
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Q9142                adjectives                7                        
                     adverbs                   2                        
                     articles                  0                        
                     autosuggestions           79                       
                     conjunctions              2                        
                     emoji keywords            79                       
                     nouns                     47                       
                     personal pronouns         1                        
                     postpositions             0                        
                     prepositions              6                        
                     pronouns                  0                        
                     proper nouns              5                        
                     translations              0                        
                     verbs                     2   

Let's keep this open for sure and maybe the data will change in the coming year/years :) We'd be more than happy to add it in eventually, and the data can change on Wikidata quite rapidly if there's interest from the community to add things in 😊

Thanks for opening this!

[seananocoistin]

Good morning Andrew. Thanks for taking the time to check out the Irish-language data. It is a pity that there is not enough data at this stage. Is there anything that could be done to upload Irish-language data to Wikidata? I am sure that there is enough data available that only needs to be made available in Wikidata. Do you have suggestions as to how to add to it?

[andrewtavis]

I'd say the easiest way to add language data into Wikidata is to use the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool, @seananocoistin :) Specifically Irish isn't one of the supported languages there, so my suggestion would be to look into adding it via the directions on the page there. From that point others can easily add Irish language data and we can take it over from there in adding language tools 😊