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Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Tue, 26 August 2008 03:44 UTC

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Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

> 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 ?

Because ISO 639-2 is primarily designed for the needs of users for whom 
"Chinese" is sufficiently precise.

http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/faq.html#24

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