Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage

Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:

> - where content written in an encompassed language is also 
> understandable in the predominant language (that being a distinct 
> language encompassed by the same macrolanguage), the content could 
> also be tagged with the macrolanguage identifier. Thus if a Cantonese 
> passage is understandable if read as Mandarin, it could also be tagged 
> with "zh", or where a Tajiki Arabic passage is also understandable in 
> Standard Arabic it could be tagged with "ar".

Cantonese "is a" Chinese, it falls under the Chinese macrolanguage 
umbrella, and therefore it could legitimately be tagged with "zh" 
whether or not it is understandable if read as Mandarin.

Unfortunately, this wording takes us back to the mindset that Chinese = 
Mandarin = "zh", and other Chinese languages are not "zh".  I thought we 
had just agreed not to do that.

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