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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

"Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Tue, 26 August 2008 00:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs
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Broome, Karen wrote:

> However, zh-pinyin could be misinterpreted and misused to
> indicate Cantonese pinyin as was previously mentioned.

True, but I think that is a problem with "zh" in ISO 639-2,
not with the registration request for "zh-pinyin".  Out of
curiosity, why is "cmn" no ISO 639-2 language, when it is
used by roughly 1/6 of the human population on the planet ?

 Frank

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