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Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sun, 25 May 2008 00:51 UTC

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From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Leif Halvard Silli


> How different the encompassed languages
> are isn't necessarily relevant. The relevant thing is that they are
> conceived as one language in some important areas. Education of some
> sort is necessary to maintain intelligibility and command of more than
> one encompassed language.

Please note very carefully: the definition of macrolanguage entails that the range of varieties is treated as a single language in some application context. That does *not* entail that the encompassed varieties are mutually intelligible, or that there is any one encompassed variety that is intelligible to all the others. Certainly no claim is made in ISO 639 that either is true. Whether or not either is true for any macrolanguage is an empirical question.


Peter

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