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Description of suggested change: Apologies, I do not know how the change would be made in the code so I do not know what the diff would look like, but I am requesting that the automatic italicisation of Halkomelem (hur) be turned off because it uses Americanist phonetic notation which contains Greek letters. Like Greek, Halkomelem should not be italicised per MOS:FOREIGNITALIC. Yue🌙14:04, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I guess I have to ask: are you sure? Do Halkomelem speakers actually write their language using Americanist phonetic notation? I ask because other languages aren't written using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Do Halkomelem speakers actually write this symbol: t̓ᶿ (U+0074: LATIN SMALL LETTER T + U+0313: COMBINING COMMA ABOVE + U+1DBF: MODIFIER LETTER SMALL THETA) when conducting the business of their community? Or is Americanist phonetic notation used to define proper pronunciation? Does written text use one of the three alphabets: Island, Cowichan, Stó꞉lō? See Halkomelem § Comparison.
Regardless, there is no automatic mechanism to prevent all text of a specific language tag from rendering in italics. There are quite a few other languages that use the Greek characters θ and χ in transliterations so Module:Lang italicizes them on a language-by-language basis. Fortunately, should you decide that Halkomelem must not be italicized, there are only about 70 articles that use the hur language tag so you could write a WP:AWB script to make sure that each of those {{lang}} or {{langx}} templates sets |italic=no.
But first, make sure that editors haven't created a mishmash that mixes the actual writing system with the pronunciation system in the Halkomelem article.
In regard to everything else, sure. I will work on a case-by-case basis, as your reply made me realise NAPA is not the only script used to write the language. Yue🌙06:15, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
