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"Junior" in more languages: Alexandre Dumas fils reads family fils #679
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#661 added junior/senior words for 11 languages. CLDR's person-name generation samples list more, unvetted: fils (fr), yngri (is), jaunākais/jaunākā (lv), Kiçik (az), Kichik (uz), կրտսեր (hy), الابن (ar), Τζούνιορ (el), ジュニア (ja), 주니어 (ko), จูเนียร์ (th) and others. Abbreviations: ml./мл. (bs, sk, sl, ru), st. (cs), jaun. (lt).
Caveat: several CLDR values translate the field label, not the word (isizukulwane, जेनेरेसन, نسل and jẹnereṣọn all mean "generation"). Others collide: 小 is a common Chinese given-name character, st is Saint, and ልጅ is the Ethiopian title Lij. Vet each word the way decisions.md#generational-words did: name collisions with tools/name_usage.py, then real trailing usage in that language. The abbreviations also fall under the #269 deferral in suffixes.py.
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derek73 commentedon Oct 14, 2026
A question to settle here before adding non-Latin words: should an honorific stop the credential run? This came out of review on #681.
Since #602, a trailing suffix word marks the start of the post-nominals, so a name word after it is absorbed:
John Smith PhD Jonesreads suffixPhD Jones. rules.md#S2 carves out honorifics:Taro Tanaka さん Joneskeeps familyJones, because a courtesy word isn't a credential. The vocabulary doesn't say which suffix words are honorifics, so the code draws that line by script, and any non-Latin word is refused.#681 adds the first non-Latin words that aren't honorifics (Cyrillic and Devanagari generational words), and the script line now refuses them as well. So Serbian splits by script:
#681 records this as Accepted under rules.md#S2. Only a name word written after the generational word reaches it, and no CLDR rendering has one there. Every Arabic, Greek or Armenian word this issue adds would inherit the same split.
Generational words aren't the special case; the honorifics are. So the decision is:
Taro Tanaka さん Jones(suffixさん Jones) andГай Плиний Старший Иванов(suffixСтарший Иванов).Lexiconfield if callers are to extend it. Devanagari has both kinds (जी/साहबare honorifics,सीनियरis generational), so no script test can separate them.Related: rules.md#S2 has grown to 324 lines with 82 examples; a separate issue proposes splitting it.
Read junior and senior in other languages as suffixes (#681)
Read junior and senior in 34 more languages; let any suffix word star…