Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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We made that registration assuming that hy covered both and that they were mutually intelligible dialects. They are not mutually intelligible without a great deal of work. It is not like Danish and Swedish. It is more like Italian and Romanian. There will be older data using “hy” for both, of course. This is a disunification. > On 28 Feb 2018, at 09:14, Arthur Reutenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is true. I believe, however, that this has always meant Standard >> (i.e. Eastern) Armenian, the national language of Armenia. > > That seems to be contradicted by the fact that we registered a subtag > for Western Armenian, with [hy] as a prefix. > >> The request at < >> http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf> says "The code >> elements "hy". "hye", and "arm" function primarily to identify the national >> language of the Republic of Armenia, and for stability we do not request >> that these codes be changed." > > The quote does say “primarily”; I don’t interpret this as > a statement by the requesters that [hy] only is used with the stricter > meaning of Standard Armenian. Primarily also refers to the number of (for instance) books catalogued using tags. Michael _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages