Month abbreviations

[STLbhoy]

Dia daoibh, I’m trying to set up a ga_IE locale option on my website, and one task I have is setting up the abbreviated month names (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec). I’ve looked in several places and I can’t seem to find any established standard for these abbreviations as Gaeilge. Do I just take the first three letters as in English, or would that look weird to a native speaker? Is there a standard?

[STLbhoy]

As a follow-up, here’s what I’ve used so far (with English for reference)

closeText: ‘Dún’, (Close)
prevText: ‘Roimhe’, (Previous)
nextText: ‘An chead eile’, (Next)
monthNames: [‘Eanáir’, ‘Feabhra’, ‘Márta’, ‘Aibreán’, ‘Bealtaine’, ‘Meitheamh’, ‘Iúil’, ‘Lúnasa’, ‘Meán Fómhar’, ‘Deireadh Fómhair’, ‘Samhain’, ‘Nollaig’],
monthNamesShort: [‘Ean’, ‘Fea’, ‘Már’, ‘Aib’, ‘Bea’, ‘Mei’, ‘Iúi’, ‘Lún’, ‘MFó’, ‘DFó’, ‘Sam’, ‘Nol’],
dayNames: [‘Dé Domhnaigh’, ‘Dé Luain’, ‘Dé Máirt’, ‘Dé Céadaoin’, ‘Déardaoin’, ‘Dé hAoine’, ‘Dé Sathairn’],
dayNamesShort: [‘Dom’, ‘Lua’, ‘Mái’, ‘Céa’, ‘Déa’, ‘Aoi’, ‘Sat’],
dayNamesMin: [‘Do’, ‘L’, ‘M’, ‘C’, ‘Dé’, ‘A’, ‘S’],
weekHeader: ‘Seachtain’, (Week)
firstDay: 1,
isRTL: false,
showMonthAfterYear: false,
yearSuffix: ”,
timeOnlyTitle: ‘Am amhain’, (Only time)
timeText: ‘Am’, (Time)
hourText: ‘Uair’, (Hour)
minuteText: ‘Nóiméad’, (Minute)
secondText: ‘Soicind’, (Second)
currentText: ‘Dáta inniu’, (Current Day)
ampm: true,
month: ‘Mí’, (Month)
week: ‘Seachtain’, (Week)
day: ‘Lá’, (Day)
allDayText: ‘Lá ar fad’ (All day)

For further reference, see this link: [url=https://code.google.com/archive/p/primefaces/wikis/PrimeFacesLocales.wiki]PrimeFaces Locales[/url]

[Onuvanja]

Athbhliain faoi mhaise! What about using “ar ais” (backwards) and “ar aghaidh” (forwards) for prevText and nextText, respectively? The problem with “An chéad … eile” is that you’d normally have to specify what it refers to, e.g. “an chéad téacs eile”, “an chéad lá eile”. In timeOnlyTitle, there should be a fada on “amháin”. As for abbreviations, I have no idea whether they’re used in Irish. Anyone got an Irish-language calendar? 🙂

[STLbhoy]

Go raibh maith agat, I knew there were better ones for next and back that I had seen on other Irish language sites, I just couldn’t think of them. Thanks for the help!

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