Re: [Ietf-languages] LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

[Doug Ewell <[e-mail]>]

Samuel Frontull wrote:

>      Subtag: gh

Variant subtag values must be 5 to 8 characters long, or 4 characters if they start with a digit. A two-character variant subtag is not permitted because it would be indistinguishable (case-insensitive) from a region subtag.

'gherd' would be a valid alternative.

>      Description: The Gherdëina variant of Ladin
>      Prefix: lld
>      Comments: The Ladin variant of Gherdëina is one of the 5 main
> variants of Ladin.

Ladin is the language; Gherdëina is the variant. The Description field is sensible; the Comments field needs to be edited to match.

The same applies to the Val Badia proposal:

>      Comments: The Ladin variant of the Val Badia is one of the 5 main
> variant of Ladin.

“Val Badia” is the variant, not Ladin. (The word “variant” in this Description field also needs to be made plural.)

Regarding “Val Badia,” the Wikipedia article cited in that proposal calls the language variant “Badiot” and notes that it is spoken in the region called Val Badia. Is there a particular reason to register it here by the name of the region, instead of using an accepted name of the language variety itself? There is not a similar proposal to register “Val Gardena.”

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