Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)
Arthur Reutenauer <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:55:47PM +0000, Michael Everson wrote: > In our proposal we noted that the ISO 639-5 code “hyx” exists for “Armenian (family)”. I would recommend this be the “macro-language” (since it can hardly refer to anything else). I think that the national language of modern Armenia is hy/hye/arm, though of course many hyw texts would have been filed under those since there was now hyw before now. And the same would be for the older edition of the Ethnologue, but disunification brings with it such things. That’s normal. > > I don’t know who decides this one. But you do agree that up to now, [hy] in the IANA registry has meant both Western and Eastern Armenian? >> I do note that in the online edition of Ethnologue, Eastern Armenian >> is listed as an alternate name (if you have page views left you can see >> it at http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=hye). This >> does however not seem very tangible evidence that [hye] only covers >> Eastern Armenian since the description contains the text quoted above. > > I don’t suppose that description is normative. Maybe not; however it could still be used to determine the scope of [hye] (since we don’t have much else to go on). Best, Arthur _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages