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September 5

Illari Quispe Ruiz

https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Illari

Would it be more accurate to state her full name (Infobox) as being Latin American Spanish or Quechua? Need to know for Wikidata purposes Trade (talk) 22:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Illari and Quispe is predominantly Quechua, Ruiz is Spanish but not necessarily Latin American. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 01:38, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The game is voiced in Latin American Spanish and English, according to the page. I say es-419. In game, the character could be considered to speak es-PE or whatever Quechua dialect she uses, but the work she is in is Latin American Spanish, I understand.

--Error (talk) 17:34, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Compare https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q828542 . Name in native language is "Winnetou (German)", not Apache.

--Error (talk) 17:38, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not even sure if Winnetou would even mean anything in Apache language. Once, I tried looking up a web-based Lakota dictionary to see if Yakari would mean anything, and the best I could come up with was "Sitting Crow", admitting that I know just about nothing of Lakota grammatical and syntactical rules... 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 22:02, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Winnetou is very likely some kind of distortion of Manitou. It seems a little strange that this isn't mentioned in the article... AnonMoos (talk) 18:52, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]