How strange to give it the same name as an unrelated natural language spoken by millions of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catala

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embedding-shape 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not even unrelated, Catala (the law-language) seems to be a French project, supported by institutions in France, and Catalan seems to have a intertwined history with France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language#France

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tough 7 hours ago | parent [-]

funnily enough, the relation comes from a french jurist's last name

from their repo: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala

> The language is named after Pierre Catala, a professor of law who pionneered the French legaltech by creating a computer database of law cases, Juris-Data.

	▲	darkwater an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Name that is almost certainly related to Catalonia as well.

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dghlsakjg 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Catala != Catalan

	▲	mkl 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Try clicking my "Catala" link and looking at the first sentence. The Catalan word for Catalan is català.
	▲	vlql 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well, not in Catalan… (It is "català")