Hi! Is anyone else no longer seeing the star that marks sentences by native speakers? I have the option enabled in my settings, and it always worked until a few days ago. Just wondering if something's changed.

Subject: Request to add Tawallammat Tamajaq [ttq] to Tatoeba

Dear Tatoeba Team,

I would like to request the addition of a new language to Tatoeba. Here are the required details:

Language name: Tawallammat Tamajaq
ISO 639-3 code: ttq
SIL link: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ttq
My Tatoeba username: Tamajeq1286
Public sentence list with 100+ sentences: https://tatoeba.org/ar/sentences_lists/show/174933

Tawallammat Tamajaq is a Southern Tuareg language with ~1.3 million speakers in Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. The list contains 100+ original sentences, not duplicates, and follows the standard Latin orthography with Ǝ ɣ š.

Thank you for your support in preserving and promoting this language.

Best regards,
Tamajeq1286

Proposal to update the Laz language flag icon

I would like to propose an update to the flag icon used for the Laz language. The current file (lzz.svg) displays a fictional design mistakenly copied from an old Wikipedia asset. Wikipedia editors have since officially marked that asset as a hoax and removed it from factual history pages (archived on Wikimedia Commons as 'File:Fictitious flag of Lazistan Sanjak.svg').

I propose replacing it with the widely recognized cultural flag of Lazona (the name of the Laz land in the Laz language):

- design and emblem: A blue field (Black Sea) with a green stripe (nature) between thin white stripes (peace) at the bottom. A white Borjgali centered in the top blue section, serving as an ancient solar symbol and traditional emblem common to the broader Kartvelian cultural family (Megrelian, Svan, and Georgian).

Why this update is beneficial:

- native verification: It is actively used by language activists and is featured by a native speaker in the educational video on the official Omniglot Laz Language Page (https://omniglot.com/writing/laz.htm) explaining its cultural significance.

- regional acceptance: Because the majority of the Laz population resides within Turkey, the Turkish language query "Lazistan Bayrağı" was specifically checked to scrutinize potential regional sensitivities. The search heavily surfaces this design as a peaceful cultural identifier, confirming that this flag represents organic cultural acceptance by the population itself rather than any political or controversial move. I performed this check explicitly to abide by Tatoeba's strict guidelines regarding neutral, conflict-free language icon choices.

- technical standards: I have built a fully compliant, optimized SVG file. The Borjgali emblem has been preserved to the absolute best detail that a micro size of 30x20 pixels can allow, and the final file footprint is well under 2KB as required.

You can view the live flag artwork proposal directly at this address:

https://itty.bitty.site/#/data:...eha5n/ByHFgGo=

Thank you for your time and support in keeping Tatoeba's language assets accurate!

I’d like to ask for everyone's input: what level of internet slang is acceptable to use in a sentence? I think most people wouldn't object to using terms that have already made it into the dictionary. But what about meaningless internet memes? For example, things from the English-speaking web like "skibidi" or "Tung Tung Tung Sahur."
​Also, is it acceptable to simply change the spelling of a word to its internet variation? For instance, using words like "pwn," "boi," "gurl," "smol," "thicc," "n00b," etc.

I have made a few improvements to the search form on mobile. You can try that out on https://dev.tatoeba.org/ and feedback is welcome. You can use a smartphone to browse the page, or on desktop just reduce the browser window width.

- Tapping the toolbar search button on mobile no longer discards existing filters

- "From" search language now indicated with a flag next to the keywords field

- Active search filters are highlighted with a light yellow background (also on non-mobile)

- New "reset search filters" button (also on non-mobile)

Testers wanted

I am doing a large maintenance work on the code base of Tatoeba. Can you help me test if everything is working correctly? Please try to use the test website TatoDev https://dev.tatoeba.org/ to do the kind of things you do on the real website tatoeba.org. The goal is that it should appear as nothing changed (even though major changes happened under the hood). If you see any problem, or anything working differently than on https://tatoeba.org/, please let me know.

Technical details: https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2/pull/3284

I select English to translate sentences, but I'm offered other languages. Everything was fine until today. But what's wrong today?

The ‘Telegram in Tatar’ team has updated the messenger’s Tatar interface. The app can now be used in both Cyrillic and the Latin alphabet.

Das Team von „Telegram in Tatar“ hat die tatarische Benutzeroberfläche des Messengers aktualisiert. Die App kann nun sowohl in kyrillischer als auch in lateinischer Schrift verwendet werden.

«Telegram in Tatar» төркеме мессенджерның татар интерфейсын яңартты. Хәзер кушымтаны кирилл һәм латин алфавиты белән кулланырга мөмкин.

«Telegram in Tatar» törkeme messendjernıñ tatar interfeysın yañarttı. Xäzer quşımtanı kirill häm latin alfavitı belän qullanırğa mömkin.