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Should Burmese-script honorifics read as titles? (ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင် gives given 'ဒေါက်တာ') #1233

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@derek73

my.toml holds a single word, the junior word ဂျူနီယာ. No Burmese honorific or title is listed, so each reads as a name (measured on ccaf6ad):

Input title given family
ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင် (Dr. Htin Aung) '' ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင်
ဦး နု (U Nu) '' ဦး နု
ဦးနု (U Nu) '' ဦးနု ''
မောင်မောင်ခ၊ ဦး '' မောင်မောင်ခ၊ ဦး

Measured (2026-11-08) on Wikidata's Burmese labels of people with Myanmar citizenship (2,604). Most write the name unspaced and without the honorific. The honorific appears in three places:

Proposal

Readings in my.toml for the words that are never a name in Burmese script: ဦး (U) and ဒေါ် (Daw) as salutations, ဒေါက်တာ (Doctor) academic, ဗိုလ်ချုပ် (General) and its ranks military, ဆရာတော် (Sayadaw) and အရှင် (Ashin) religious, သခင် (Thakin) a style. These are native-script readings, which nothing outside Burmese can collide with, the same footing as he.toml's titles. Simulated with a caller's lexicon:

"ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင်"     →  title="ဒေါက်တာ", family="ထင်အောင်"
"ဦး နု"                →  title="ဦး", family="နု"

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  1. self-assigned this
    on Nov 9, 2026
  2. added
    vocabularyFixed by a word-list entry: per-word vocabulary and language packs
    titlesTitles and honorifics (rules/H)
    non-latin-scriptNames written in a script other than Latin (rules/W)
    and removed on Nov 9, 2026
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