Talk:Funduq al-Tetwaniyyin

Name

This is one of those North African monuments where, due to variable transliterations in both French and English, not to mention the two Arabic names to begin with, there's a veritable cornucopia of different spellings of the name. I used Staouniyyin initially here because it seemed to be used in some more recent news sources (some of which are now dead links), some of which were in English. After looking again at the more scholarly sources, however, it seems that the form "Tettawniyin" or "Tattawiyin" is used more there. These are admittedly all French publications, but at this point there's not enough reliable English sources to compare, and they're all just renditions of the same one or two Arabic names anyways. So I'll move the page to that name for now, and try to maybe include all the variant transliteration in a footnote in order to de-clutter the lead. R Prazeres (talk) 23:53, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Actually, for my own reference and everyone else's, I'm going to list all the variants here. the authors are cited in the article:

• Fondok Tettawniyin (Le Tourneau 1949)
• Fondouc at-Tattawiniyn (Marçais 1954)
• Fondouk Tattawiyin (Gaudio 1982)
• Funduq al-Titwaniyyin (Salmon 2021)
  • Also mentions alternatives: al-Tattawaniyyin, al-Stawinyin
• Stauniyin Funduq (or Fondouk Staouniyine in the French version) (Touri et al 2010)

So that's what we have to contend with. Since there's no consensus, I'll try to pick something reasonable. Salmon 2021 is the most recent reference (and thus more likely to reflect current romanization standards), so I'll favour his renditions. R Prazeres (talk) 01:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)