Talk:Kam–Sui languages

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Hyphen vs. dash

Why does this article name have a dash – instead of a hyphen - ?

Sino-Tibetan languages does not have a dash, but Kuki-Chin-Naga languages has one between "Kuki-Chin" and "Naga" to link them together.

Kam-Sui does not consists of a Kam branch and a Sui branch put together. See the classification.

— Stevey7788 (talk) 13:43, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Niger–Congo does not consist of a Niger branch and a Congo branch either. But it's a range, essentially 'from Niger to Congo'. In this case, 'from Kam to Sui'. (If that's not an accurate account, then that's a naming problem, not a punctuation issue. The languages are not of the Kam[attributive] Suis as opposed to some other Suis in a different branch, which is what a literal reading of a hyphen would indicate.)

Sino-Tibetan, like Nilo-Saharan, uses a hyphen because Sino- is a prefix.

Kuki-Chin is a compound of synonyms, so the name is effectively 'from Kuki/Chin to Naga'. A virgule might make better sense (the ??Kuki/Chin–Naga languages).

Authors and publishers differ in whether they bother with en dashes for language-family names, but are generally consistent within their purview. — kwami (talk) 20:44, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]