[Bug localedata/23140] More languages need two forms of month names

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23140

Michael Wolf <milupo at sorbzilla dot de> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Michael Wolf <milupo at sorbzilla dot de> ---
Upper Sorbian:

Nominative             Accusative                Genitive

januar                 januar                    januara
februar                februar                   februar
měrc                   měrc                      měrca
apryl                  apryl                     apryla
meja                   meju                      meje
junij                  junij                     junija
julij                  julij                     julija
awgust                 awgust                    awgusta
september              september                 septembra
oktober                oktober                   oktobra
nowember               nowember                  nowembra
december               december                  decembra

Meja "May" is an exceptional case: It is the only month name that has feminine
gender. Therefore its nominative and accusative are not identical. Besides it
has the ending -e in genitive instead of -a. With the month names for
september, oktober, nowember and december, the vowel "e" is elided before the
consonant "r".

Lower Sorbian:

Nominative             Accusative                Genitive

januar                 januar                    januara
februar                februar                   februar
měrc                   měrc                      měrca
apryl                  apryl                     apryla
maj                    maj                       maja
junij                  junij                     junija
julij                  julij                     julija
awgust                 awgust                    awgusta
september              september                 septembra
oktober                oktober                   oktobra
nowember               nowember                  nowembra
december               december                  decembra

The most Lower Sorbian month names are identical to the Upper Sorbian ones with
one exception: maj "May". Maj is masculine and therefore nominative and
accusative are identical here. The Upper Sorbian exceptional case does not
exist in Lower Sorbian.

There is a fourth grammatical case that often occurs: The locative. It mainly
occurs behind the preposition w "in":

w januarje "in January"
w februarje "in February"
w měrcu "in March"
w aprylu "in April"
w meji (Upper Sorbian), w maju (Lower Sorbian) "in May"
w juniju "in June"
w juliju "in July"
w awgusće "in August"
w septembrje "in September"
w oktobrje "in October"
w nowembrje "in November"
w decembrje "in December"

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