Re: [Ietf-languages] Language tag for Han pinyin

[Richard Wordingham <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 31 May 2022 08:18:30 -0600
"Doug Ewell" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> 
> > (In the application that prompted this question, English Wiktionary,
> > the contrast within Chinese to be conveyed by the language tag is
> > Han Pinyin v. Wade-Giles.  Script is mostly autodetected, generally
> > using language as a cue.  I suggested using BCP 47 tags rather then
> > non- compliant application-specific tags such as 'cmn-py' and
> > 'cmn-wg'.)  
> 
> I read this as saying there are actual examples in English Wiktionary
> of non-compliant application-specific tags such as 'cmn-py' and
> 'cmn-wg'. If so, that is disappointing.
> 
> Can you post a specific example from Wiktionary where such tags are
> being used?

The meanings of language tags with hyphens are stored in
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:languages/datax .  A lot of these
languages are proto-languages, such as:

ine-pro Proto-Indo_European
alg-pro Proto-Algonquian
aus-pam-pro Proto-Pama-Nyungan

There are also conlangs, such as:

art-bsp the Black Speech (scripts Tengwar and Latin)

There are various dialects, such as:

gmw-cfr Central Franconian
roa-leo Leonese (No, I don't know how this differs from Asturian.)

Non-standard language clusters:

inc-pra Prakrit (i.e. the literary and dramatic Prakrits, but
excluding the oldest and youngest Prakrits)

inc-ash Ashokan Prakrit

pra-niy Niya Prakrit

The field translit-module is used to dispatch to transliteration
modules for languages in non-Roman scripts.

For another example of use, we have for instance
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/campu (click on the edit tab to see the
language codes in use).  The language tags are used to create most of
the categories listed at the bottom of the page.

Happy reading!

Richard.