Re: Forms for subtag kmpre20c
"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:56:10 -0700
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--===============0083771663083603542== Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" <html><body><span style=3D"font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt= ;"><div>=C3=89lie Roux wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>>>> General= ly speaking I think all lang tags should all have a<br></div><div>>>&= gt; macrolanguage though.<br>>><br>>> Can you elaborate on what= you mean by this?<br>><br>> I think it comes from a few different an= gles:<br>><br>> [...]<br>><br>> 2. my experience with the same = databases is that they all use the bo<br>> lang tag for Tibetan. Unfortu= nately bo is not a macrolanguage, it's<br>> supposed to be the language = spoken in some areas today<br>> (<a href=3D"https://iso639-3.sil.org/cod= e/bod">https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/bod</a>). This language is very differ= ent<br>> from most of the literature we have in our database which is Cl= assical<br>> Tibetan, which has its own tag (xct). [...]</div><div><br><= /div><div>OK, you=E2=80=99re speaking specifically of a group of Tibetan la= nguages which, as you see it, are sometimes treated as a single language an= d sometimes as multiple languages, such that neither the fine-grained nor t= he coarse-grained identification solution is satisfactory all the time.</di= v><div><br></div><div>That seems like a reasonable starting point to make t= he argument to ISO 639-3/RA that Tibetan should be made a macrolanguage. (T= he =E2=80=9Cpolicy,=E2=80=9D as I understand it, is that new macrolanguages= can be created, but only with good justification, as you may well have her= e, not willy-nilly as some folks who don=E2=80=99t understand the concept w= ould prefer.)</div><div><br></div><div>This is fundamentally different from= saying that =E2=80=9Call=E2=80=9D language tags should have a macrolanguag= e.<br> <br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US |= <a title=3D"ewellic.org" href=3D"http://ewellic.org" target=3D"_blank" mce= _href=3D"http://ewellic.org">ewellic.org</a></div><div> <br></div><blo= ckquote id=3D"replyBlockquote" style=3D"border-left: 2px solid blue; margin= -left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:ver= dana;" webmail=3D"1" mce_style=3D"border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left:= 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"= ><div id=3D"wmQuoteWrapper">=0A=0A</div>=0A</blockquote></span></body></htm= l> --===============0083771663083603542== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages --===============0083771663083603542==--