Esperanto town names

[LaPingvino]

Can someone help me to get starting to create an Esperanto town names GRF file?

[PikkaBird]

Sure. The first thing you need to do is make a list of town names (or parts of town names) you want to use. Turning the list into a grf is the relatively easy part.

Bone. La unua farendaĵo estas krei liston de la nomoj de urbetoj (aŭ de partoj de la nomoj de urbetoj), kiujn vi volas uzi. Ŝanĝi la liston en GRF-dosieron estas la plej facila parto.

[planetmaker]

Have a look at the existing Townname NewGRFs: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/townnames

[LaPingvino]

OK, I just made a list with big cities in the world in Esperanto spelling, at least that can be a good start...

[PikkaBird]

Could you copy and paste the list into your post? My text editor is having trouble converting from unix format with the correct character set.

[LaPingvino]

Ĝajpuro
Ĝakarto
Ĉangĉuno
Ŝanhajo
Ŝantoŭo
Ĥarkovo
Ĥartumo
Abiĝano
Adis-Abebo
Ĉenajo
Ĝengĝoŭo
Ĉengduo
Ŝenjango
Ahmadabado
Ŝiĝjaĝŭango
Ŝiano
Ĝido
Ĉikago
Ĝinano
Ĉitagongo
Akrao
Alĝero
Aleksandrio
Alepo
Amsterdamo
Ankaro
Antananarivo
Bagdado
Bamako
Bandungo
Bankoko
Barcelono
Bengaluro
Berlino
Bogoto
Bonaero
Brisbano
Budapeŝto
Bukareŝto
Cindao
Dakaro
Dako
Damasko
Daresalamo
Davao
Delhio
Dualao
Durbano
Esfahano
Faridabado
Fenikso
Filadelfio
Fortalezo
Fuŝuno
Gizo
Guĝranvalo
Gvadalaharo
Hajderabado
Hamburgo
Handano
Hangĝoŭo
Hanojo
Harareo
Harbino
Havano
Hefejo
Ho-Ĉi-Min-urbo
Honkongo
Ibadano
Istanbulo
Izmiro
Jangono
Jaundeo
Johanesburgo
Jokohamo
Kabulo
Kaburbo
Kaduno
Kairo
Kalukano
Kampalo
Kano
Kantono
Karaĉio
Karakaso
Kazablanko
Kezonurbo
Kievo
Kinŝaso
Kioto
Kito
Kolkato
Konakrio
Kordobo
Kuala-Lumpuro
Lagoso
Lakno
Lanĝoŭo
Limo
Limo
Liono
Lisbono
Londono
Los-Anĝeleso
Luando
Maŝhado
Madrido
Manaŭo
Manilo
Marakajbo
Medano
Medeĝino
Mekao
Meksik-urbo
Melburno
Milano
Minsko
Montrealo
Moskvo
Mosulo
Multano
Mumbajo
Nagojo
Najrobo
Nanĉano
Nankingo
Nasiko
Norda Ĥartumo
Novjorko
Osako
Parizo
Patnao
Pekino
Pekino
Pjongjango
Pnom-Peno
Porto-Alegro
Pretorio
Puneo
Pusano
Rabato
Riado
Rio-de-Ĵanejro
Romo
Roterdamo
Sanao
Sankt-Peterburgo
San-Paŭlo
Seulo
Sidnejo
Suĝoŭo
Surabajo
Taŝkento
Tabrizo
Taeguo
Tajpeo
Tajuano
Tangŝano
Tehrano
Tjanĝino
Tokio
Toronto
Urumĉio
Valencio
Vankuvero
Varsovio
Vieno
Vuhano

[Supercheese]

Wow, they *all* end in o.

[PikkaBird]

Wow, they *all* end in o.

Location: Idaho

[Supercheese]

Wow, they *all* end in o.

Location: Idaho

Add one more to the tally.
But seriously, I guess city names ending in o is an Esperanto thing? Like how lots of Greek last names end in s (in the Latin alphabet anyhow)?
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[Fajro]

Add one more to the tally.
But seriously, I guess city names ending in o is an Esperanto thing? Like how lots of Greek last names end in s (in the Latin alphabet anyhow)?
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The suffixes -o, -a, -e, and -i indicate that a word is a noun, adjective, adverb, and infinitive verb, respectively.

In Esperanto, all singular nouns end in "o," regardless of gender, and all plural nouns end in "oj." Nouns are turned feminine by the insertion of "in" between the word root and the "o" or "oj" suffix. For example:

* Hundo (dog)
* Hundoj (dogs)
* Hundino (she-dog)
* Hundinoj (she-dogs)

[Supercheese]

Fancy engineered languages and their extremely regular rules!

[LaPingvino]

Well, to be honest I picked out just the completely esperantized ones, thus I discarded everything not finishing on o... a lot of cities are just used "as-is" as well

[LaPingvino]

Now how would I incorporate this into a NewGRF-file?

[Eddi]

http://hg.openttdcoop.org/nml/raw-file/ ... town_names

[LaPingvino]

Thanks for that Do I need any boilerplate code around that?

[Eddi]

only very little, the basic grf info (grf-id, name, etc.) and a lang/default.lng file with the strings for english language. the details are explained somewhere on that page.

there should also be some examples on the dev zone already, e.g. german town names with a section of simple real city lists, and one section with building fictional names out of parts

[LaPingvino]

First try, cannot get a GRF from it though...

[Alberth]

Why not?
If you install nml, it will generate a grf for you.

[Christopher]

I, like the rest of the Esperantist OTTD population (approximately 3 total,) would like this GRF a lot. After seeing this thread, I created a list of Esperanto town names with two parts: 30 adjectives (like hela), and 31 nouns (like fonto.)

(EDIT: I'm working on turning this into a GRF, once I can wrap my head around it!)

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