Re: Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

>> Juǀʼhoan (which has an alternative name, Juǀʼhoansi)
>>
>> ǂKxʼauǁʼein
>
> Actually, it’s the same language :-)  Subtag [ktz].  Ethnologue has
> the latter a dialect of the former, but in the registry we just have a
> deprecated entry for ǂKxʼauǁʼein [aue], pointing to [ktz].

The proposal is to fix the spelling of names for both entities, the 
active one and the deprecated (639-3: retired) one.

I know [aue] was retired in favor of [ktz]. The fact that these happen 
to be the only two with both clicks and "apostrophes" is an amusing 
coincidence.

> With the font used to display this email to me (Apple’s Monaco, I
> think), the problem is rather to distinguish U+02BB and U+02BC.
> They’re just tiny floating dots, nearly identical.  Very odd.

This is always a problem with small glyphs: ' ꞌ ʹ ʻ ʼ ʽ ˈ ‘ ’ ‛

Depending on one's viewpoint, this may or may not be a reason to worry 
about them at all. But if we are going to recommend click-letter 
spellings to the RA, for these two languages (three names) the 
recommended names will also include one of these characters (two for 
Kx), and we need to decide which to use.

--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org 

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