Re: Registration requests: akuapem, asante
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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I agree. I don’t think the prefix “ak” should be added, and I approve these subtags. I wish that there were more actual information about African languages on the Wikipedia. Michael > On 22 May 2017, at 16:58, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 18 I wrote: > >> Is it already the case that Twi is tagged inconsistently as either >> 'tw' or 'ak'? > > Hearing no response, I offer this suggestion: > > The purpose of BCP 47 is to provide identifiers for language content, > based when possible on ISO standard code elements. > > ISO 639 has coded Twi [tw, twi] separately from Akan [ak, aka]. > > Irrespective of the fact that "Twi" is actually a name for two of the > three major dialects of Akan (the two for which Sascha has proposed > variant subtags), I believe it would be destabilizing for BCP 47 to > encourage users to tag Twi content as "ak" or "ak-anything" instead of > using "tw". > > Therefore, I suggest (to the Reviewer in particular) that Sascha's > proposals be approved as is, without adding "Prefix: ak" to either. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf-languages mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages