Re: A code for standard Zhuang
Doug Ewell <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:34:02 -0600
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To be clear, this thread isn't proposing any new subtags for the Registry, correct? We have a lot of outstanding requests still waiting for decisions (Occitan, Kirshenbaum, Tibetan) and I wasn't sure whether this was preliminary to another one. --Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org -------- Original message --------From: John Cowan <[email protected]> Date: 3/31/18 20:21 (GMT-07:00) To: David Starner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] A code for standard Zhuang On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 6:54 PM, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: There seems to be some interest in Zhuang Wikimedia projects*; looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_languages and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Zhuang , it seems that Standard Zhuang has no special tag. Presumably, it shouldn't be tagged za, because that's for the language group (which is apparently not a linguistically valid group); should it be tagged zyb, since it's based on the Youngbei (zyb) dialect/language, or should SIL be petitioned for a new tag for Standard Zhuang? I added this comment at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#handling_languages_with_multiple_scripts>: I agree that 'zyb' is the right tag for Standard/Yongbei Zhuang. The tag 'zh' is a macrolanguage tag, representing a cover term for all the Zhuang languages, which are no more closely related than the Sinitic or the Romance languages. The Wuming variety of Yongbei was chosen not because it is historically more prominent (as in the case of the French of Paris becoming Standard French) but because it makes the most phonemic distinctions, or was believed to do so at the time of standardization. As for the script, there are probably more people literate in Latin script than in Sawndip (Han) script, so the former should most likely be adopted. I admit I'm an outsider here There are truly no outsiders here, only people who have not yet chosen to become insiders. Welcome! -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] moi, les villes du Silmarillion ont plus de realite que Babylone. --Christopher Tolkien, as interviewed by Le Monde _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages