Re: ISO 639-3 language codes posted
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:17 PM, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: Looking at a couple of the rejected slips, Pomeranian can probably be coded > as nds-BR. Louisiana Spanish would need a separate tag; I don't think even > subnational territory codes would be appropriate here, given that the > dialects of Spanish spoken most commonly in Louisiana are probably more > related to es-MX (and es-CU, maybe?) than to these native dialects. I'm not > even sure they should be one tag, given the change request says "Autonym > (self-name) for this language: The new languages were rejected are pretty uniformly because they are dialects, not languages. I move that the Official Doug be asked to grab these people's emails and send them a letter explaining what a variant tag is, and suggesting that they (severally) apply for them. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] That you can cover for the plentiful and often gaping errors, misconstruals and disinformation in your posts through sheer volume -- that is another misconception. --Mike to Peter _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages