Re: Registrations from ISO 639-3: Part I
Arthur Reutenauer <[email protected]>
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>> This registration tracks a change made to ISO 639-3 effective >> 2017-01-31, retiring the code element 'rie' for Rien as non-existent. > > I guess Rien ne va plus.... The name struck me too :-) The rationale for retiring the code (see http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2016-005.pdf) is no less intriguing: The name for this purported language apparently came from the 1954 listing from David Thomas. Most linguists in Southeast Asia have not heard of this language. The Ethnologue seems to be the sole source of information on this group. Perhaps David Thomas confused Rien [rie] with the Eastern Bru [bru] dialect called Leun or Leung and listed it as a new language. More likely is the possibility that David Thomas got confused with a village name. The only reference for Rien [rie] in Glottolog 2.6 is Schliesinger (2003). However, Schliesinger’s book points right back to the 13th edition of the Ethnologue. Best, Arthur _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages