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List Georgian and Armenian titles in their own scripts (#1225) - #1317

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Part of #1225. The Տեր question stays open there (below).

What changes

ka.toml and hy.toml listed only romanized titles (batoni, kalbatoni, vardapet). A title written in Georgian or Armenian script therefore read as the given name, and the real given name became the middle. Twelve words join:

Georgian Armenian
salutation (after_given) ბატონი, ქალბატონი, ბ-ნი, ქ-ნი պարոն, տիկին
academic პროფესორი, დოქტორი, აკადემიკოსი պրոֆեսոր, դոկտոր, ակադեմիկոս
  • ბ-ნი and ქ-ნი are listed whole, the way Russian г-н is. The hyphen keeps each one word, and rule H2's leading-abbreviation shape only reads words ending in a full stop, so it never reached them. Each is same_as its full form.
  • parse("ბატონი დავით ყიფიანი") now gives title ბატონი, given დავით. 1.4.0 through 3.0.1 gave given ბატონი, middle დავით; both wheels were checked.
  • Mtavruli capitals and Armenian capitals fold to the listed spelling.

Evidence

Counts come from tools/name_usage.py (2026-11-10) and are recorded on each reading's note.

  • In the Georgian and Armenian Wikipedia people indexes, none of the words leads a name except as the title (Տիկին Ճեն, Դոկտոր Լալայան).
  • ბატონი ends two Georgian Wikipedia names, both transcriptions of Button and Batoni. These keep their family name, because a bare title word ending a name is a name word (rules/H5, the trailing title).

What moves

Nothing.

  • The snapshot is unchanged.
  • config_diff.py moves 0 of the 1,010 corpus names holding a Georgian or Armenian letter. The control lexicon reads ბატონი დავით ყიფიანი with given ბატონი, so the harness can show a move.
  • opensanctions-parliaments was skipped: its shared cache predates this tree's dataset list.

Left open: Տեր

Տեր leads five clergy names in Armenian Wikipedia, but three other names there write it as the spaced form of the Տեր- surname prefix (Զավեն Տեր Եղիյան). As a religious title it would take that prefix wherever the surname comes first: Տեր Եղիյան, Զավեն would read title Տեր. Whether a title-particle reading (rules/P4's Except, as st and freiherr have) fits both shapes is recorded in decisions/salutation-titles and left on #1225.

Review

A design-docs review found five problems, all fixed in d1b1ef0:

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derek73 and others added 2 commits November 10, 2026 18:44
ka.toml and hy.toml held only romanized titles, so a title written in
Georgian or Armenian script read as the given name
(`ბატონი დავით ყიფიანი` gave given 'ბატონი', middle 'დავით').

Thirteen words join: the salutations ბატონი, ქალბატონი, պարոն, տիկին
(after_given, as batoni and г-н), the hyphenated abbreviations ბ-ნი and
ქ-ნი (same_as their full forms), and the academic პროფესორი, დოქტორი,
აკადემიკოსი, պրոֆեսոր, դոկտոր, ակադեմիկոս. No bearer leads a name in
the Georgian or Armenian Wikipedia people indexes or Wikidata; no corpus
name moves (0 of 1,010 holding either script).

Տեր is left out: as a title it takes the spaced Տեր- surname prefix
wherever the surname comes first; recorded in
decisions/salutation-titles and open on #1225.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s count (#1225)

The design-docs review found that ბ-ნი and ქ-ნი lacked the after_given
their full forms and г-н carry (`ყიფიანი, დავით ბ-ნი` read middle 'ბ-ნი'),
that twelve words join, not thirteen, that the entry's Jenson Button
example held an Armenian seh, and that the leading տեր uses include a
bishop, not only married priests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@derek73 derek73 added vocabulary Fixed by a word-list entry: per-word vocabulary and language packs titles Titles and honorifics (rules/H) non-latin-script Names written in a script other than Latin (rules/W) labels Nov 11, 2026
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