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"Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> Tue, 26 August 2008 12:03 UTC

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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:52 +0200
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs
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Hoi,
As the Tibetan language is written in a completely different script,
localisation can not be done by using the same transcription.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bod
Thanks,
       Gerard

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Andrew Cunningham
<lang.support@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> 2008/8/26 John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
>
>> Andrew Cunningham scripsit:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm.  Do you have a pointer to how this is done?
>>
>>
> For Tibetan: http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/rom1_bo.pdf, can also search Wikipedia
> for the article on Tibetan pinyin.
>
> General principle for pinyin usage in identifying place names available in
> http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/ungegn/session-8/working-papers/working-paper10.pdf
>
> But seems to be moves to also apply it to peoples names, birth records etc.
>
>
>> --
>> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan<http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan>
>> cowan@ccil.org
>> To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
>> are
>> no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
>> that
>> they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The
>> Hobbit
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Cunningham
> Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
> State Library of Victoria
> Australia
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> andrewc@vicnet.net.au
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