Re: Language Subtag Registration

Sub national geographies are less well standardized, in terms of identifiers, and exhibit more stability issues (more prone to change). They aren't necessarily very indicative of local language or dialectical variation either.. In this case, for example, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are both in the same U.S. state, but speak differently.

In most cases, the spoken and orthographic variations are either interesting in themselves (as durable, meaningful dialectical variations that need separate identification) or just aren't useful enough as subtags to justify inclusion.

In most cases I think subtag requests such as this one are not particularly useful as other than curiosities: it's most useful when the dialect is recognized as distinct for processing purposes. Private use subtags suffice for small scale needs.

Addison


On August 21, 2018, at 12:54 PM, Hugh Paterson <[email protected]> wrote:

Why isn't there a geographic sub-tag as part of the tag process? I'm not up on the IANA history.

Language-Nation-(Geography)?
en-US-(sub-national-geography)





On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I briefly thought about making a similar request for Pittsburgh English,
a few years ago.

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-------- Original Message --------
      Type: variant
      Subtag: philly
      Description: Philadelphia dialect of US English
      Prefix: en-US


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