Re: [Ietf-languages] Between language and script in Burmese

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Fri, 19 November 2021 10:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Between language and script in Burmese
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Hello Simon, others,

On 2021-11-19 17:10, Simon Cozens wrote:

> But Shan Pali is a useful case because it does ask the question of whether something like Shan - and all these variant forms of Burmese orthography - is a language or a script (or a script variant). Some of them diverge quite strongly from the standard Burmese letterforms but IETF considers them all Mymr. I’d question that.

It's not the IETF that decides on script codes. The IETF just pulls 
together various ISO standards into a single language tag, and has some 
escape hatches such as variant subtags when the ISO standards are not 
enough.

Regards,   Martin.