Re: Language Subtag Registration

The referenced Wikipedia article says "Newfoundland English is a name for
several accents and dialects of English [...]" (then listing some variants),
which makes me ask if it may be more appropriate to have several variant
subtags rather than just one.

/Kent Karlsson

Den 2015-10-13 00:55, skrev "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>:

> I think the denoted variant is perfectly reasonable to add, but as mentioned,
> the syntax requires a longer subtag, even though "nfld" is a conventional
> abbreviation for Newfoundland. What about "nflnd"?
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf
> Of Phillips, Addison
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 10:08 AM
> To: Marc Moisan <webmaster@moisan.ca>; ietf-languages@iana.org
> Subject: RE: Language Subtag Registration
> 
> Nfld is too short. It needs to be at least five letters (or four numbers) to
> make a valid subtag.
> 
> Addison.
> ________________________________________
> From: Ietf-languages [ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] on behalf of Marc
> Moisan [webmaster@moisan.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 6:10 PM
> To: ietf-languages@iana.org
> Subject: Language Subtag Registration
> 
>    LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 
>    1. Name of requester: Marc Moisan
>    2. E-mail address of requester: webmaster @ moisan.ca
>    3. Record Requested:
> 
>    Type:   variant
>    Subtag: nfld
>    Description: Newfoundland English
>    Prefix: en-CA
> 
>    4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 
>    The subtag is intended to represent the dialect of Canadian English spoken
> in the
>    province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sometimes referred as "Newfinese"
> the dialect
>    differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere.
> 
>    5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
>    article):
> 
>    W.J. Kirwin, G.M. Story and J.D.A. Widdowson, eds. "Dictionary of
> Newfoundland English",
>    2nd ed. (University of Toronto Press, 1990). [ISBN: 978-0802068194]
> 
>    Nellie P. Strowbridge, "The Newfoundland Tongue" (St. John's, NL:
> Flanker Press, 2008).
>    [ISBN: 978-1897317235]
> 
>    R.A. Bragg, "Traditional Newfie Talk: The First English Language of North
> America"
>    (Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 2015). [ISBN: 978-1771083034]
> 
>    6. Any other relevant information:
> 
>    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_English
> 
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