Re: [Ietf-languages] Proto-languages

Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> Sat, 02 December 2023 20:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Proto-languages
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2023 18:45:45 +0000
Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:

> Any of these is vastly preferable to the truly non-compliant tags
> that Wiki projects have used. And given that the goal here is
> probably to provide discrete, well-formed tags, rather than to
> interchange with other projects and databases also in Proto-Whatever,
> registration of anything, at any level, seems unnecessary.

The one plausible use I could think of for specific tagging of the
proto-languages, rather than lumping them all under "mis", was for text
to speech conversion.  The discordant forms of Schleicher's Fable need
not be a problem for reading it out.  The chief use would be for
individual words.  In the Wikipedia article on the fable, the claimed
PIE is tagged as "ine", which is also consistent with it being English,
German or Latin.  Actually, "mis" might be more useful, as it might
stop applications trying to find a best match Indo-European language
spell-chcker!

Richard.