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"Doug Ewell" <dewell@roadrunner.com> Sun, 24 June 2007 23:32 UTC

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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:

> Which yields 54 macrolanguages in 4645bis, zap (Zapotec) being the one 
> with the most extlangs, 58 (if we do not count the sign languages).

I assume that if the extlang mechanism were abolished, then the special-case 
handling of "sgn" would not occur either, and American Sign Language would 
be indicated as simply "ase" (not "sgn-ase"), and "sgn-US" would be 
deprecated in favor of "ase".

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