Re: [Ltru] rechartering to handle 639-6 (was FW: Anomalyinupcomingregistry)

I never intended to give the impression that I assumed that dialect tagging
was obscure, nor that having a distinction between spoken and written
variants would not be useful. I just noted that the number of registrations
for dialect variants in the Language Subtag Registry is miniscule covering
only a handful of dialects of even fewer languages. And that after several
years of having a Language (Sub)Tag Registry with registration possibility.

    /kent k

Den 2009-07-15 17.37, skrev "Broome, Karen" <Karen.Broome@am.sony.com>:

> For what it's worth, the film and television world does have a pretty heavy
> requirement for dialect distinctions. We also have a need to identify spoken
> and written variants. ISO 639-6 also provides a fixed-length tag, which can be
> advantageous in some situations. While I tend to see ISO 639-6 as an
> interesting alternative to xml:lang and not necessarily something I'd use
> within xml:lang, I wanted to correct the assumption that dialect tagging is
> obscure and the distinction between spoken and written variants is not useful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karen Broome
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of Kent Karlsson
> Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 6:27 AM
> To: debbie@ictmarketing.co.uk; 'LTRU Working Group'
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] rechartering to handle 639-6 (was FW:
> Anomalyinupcomingregistry)
> 
> 
> Den 2009-07-15 09.00, skrev "Debbie Garside" <debbie@ictmarketing.co.uk>:
> 
>> > Well for starters, there are separate codes for Catalan and Valencian :-)
> 
> So does BCP 47 (well, nearly):
>     ca
>     ca-valencia
> 
> There is nothing in principle hindering a registration of a variant subtag
> specifically for "true" Catalan (no value judgement implied).
> 
>> > And, I rather like the way ISO 639-6 deals with variants of Chinese.
> 
> 639-3 also deals with "variants" of Chinese (separate languages, really).
> How does 639-6 do it differently (apart from using 4-letter codes instead of
> 3-letter codes)?
> 
>> > Perhaps you would like to tell me how many of the 7000+ codes of ISO 639-3
>> > will be used.  My guess is approximately 2-300 at present but over time
>> more
>> > and more.  The answer is the same for ISO 639-6.
>> >
>> > Essentially, all the reasons for including ISO 639-6 are the same as for
>> > including ISO 639-3.  Unless of course, you think that ISO 639-3 is perfect
>> > and defines all languages distinctly and that anything else cannot, is not,
>> > and definitely is not a language.  Then of course you have to decide that
>> > BCP 47 will only deal with languages and not dialects.
> 
> BCP 47 does deal with dialects, using variant subtags. However, it is very
> very far from systematic or comprehensive. It requires individual
> registration of each variant. I would venture to guess that that process
> will never result in a systematic or (in some sense) comprehensive set
> of variant subtags for dialects. On the other hand, the call for tagging
> dialects separately, currently seems fairly small amongst the consumers of
> BCP 47, IMHO.
> 
>     /kent k
> 
>> > Then, and only then,
>> > may you exclude ISO 639-6.
>> >
>> >
>> > Debbie
> 
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