Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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On 8 Mar 2018, at 22:25, Arthur Reutenauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? Irrelevant. Western could not have been described by anything else. > >>> 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). I don’t find this speculation helpful. You are only asking the same questions. Do you have an opinion? M _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages