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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 10 December 2015 14:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: Simple: Language Subtag Registration
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Well, it’s clearly Latin without declensional endings. That is a sort of controlled language, so la-simple would be OK for it (since it has no three-letter code). Interlingua (ia, ina) on the other hand is more engineered and is heavily Romance-influenced. 

> On 9 Dec 2015, at 21:20, David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am under the impression that Latino sine flexione would be better treated as a separate language; the Wikipedia examples certainly give that impression. For those that can read Latin, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35803/35803-h/35803-h.htm is the defining documents.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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