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This page serves as the base for translation notes which should be read by translators of certain language(s), and to maintain consistency and accuracy of translations across different translators of same language. This page is the alternative of the translation note page in [http://dev.minetest.net/Translating/de developer's wiki] since it is impossible and not relevant for translators who are not developers to create developer's wiki account and post the translation notes in the developer's wiki.

== How to create notes? ==
Create a subpage of this page in your language code and write all the translation notes in it (eg. Help:Translation Notes/de for German translation notes). Of course, you should write the notes in your intended language in there. If you want to write some translation notes in English so English readers knows what are being written in the notes, do it under [[#Brief translation notes]] but keep it simple.

== Brief translation notes ==
Create subheader and briefly explain what are some of the translation notes that has been written for your language.

=== German ===
The translation notes for German are imported from developer's wiki.

=== Malay ===
The translation notes written on Malay are about the unusual phrases used for translations, and note on some self-derivative words or near-neighbour words as some English words don't have any existing Malay words. While most of the translations are not worth mentioned here due to complexity or common sense, it felt needs to mention that translations for certain words should also mentioned to English community to avoid confusions of both sides (original and translated).
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! English !! Malay !! Notes
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| ''mode'' || ''mod'' || Common Malay word ''mod'' is official translation of English ''mode'' and it's used everywhere
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| ''mod'' (singular) || ''mods'' || Malay word ''mods'' is self-derived from Malay words '''''mod'''ifika'''s'''i'' (modification) with an S to avoid confusion with Malay word ''mod'' that means English ''mode''
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| ''mods'' (plural) || ''mods-mods'' || Malay grammar for plurals is reduplication of words
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| ''diamond'' || ''intan'' || Malay uses ''intan'' for all diamond-related stuff like ores, tools, blocks ''but not for diamond stone''.
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| ''diamond'' (stone) || ''berlian'' || Malay has separate word for the stone diamond (the item diamond)
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| ''deprecated'' || ''terkecam'' || Near-neighbour: The only translation for ''deprecate'' is ''kecam'', which usually used to mean ''criticize''
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| ''pickaxe'' || ''beliung'' || Near-neighbour: The only translation for ''pickaxe'' is ''beliung'', which usually used to mean ''adze''
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| ''orange'' || ''jingga / oren'' || Use ''jingga'' for colour, use ''oren'' for fruit, others use common sense either it's more to colour or fruit
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| ''air'' || ''udara'' || Don't confuse with ''air'', the Malay word for ''water''. Don't use the word ''angin'' as that means ''wind'' or ''moving air''.
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| ''water'' || ''air'' || Don't confuse the Malay word ''air'' which means ''water'' with the English word ''air''.
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| ''gravel'' || ''kelikir'' || Don't use ''kerikil'' even though both means the same in English ''gravel'' as the one in game is really ''kelikir'', ''kerikil'' is a little bit different from ''kelikir''.
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