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Re: [Ltru] Is 639-3 bogus ?

Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Wed, 11 October 2006 15:44 UTC

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John Cowan wrote:
> Addison Phillips scripsit:
> 
>> Ideally, extended language subtags would be restricted to the list in 
>> the first link above and 4646bis would reflect that fact. 
> 
> Just so, except that "sgn" (not in 639-3) is treated as a macrolanguage
> encompassing the sign languages, and an encompassed language that has
> its own 639-2 or 639-1 tag is not converted to an extlang.

Yes.

> 
>> I can see at least one problem with the macro languages list: there are 
>> at least some languages (the "Serbo-Croatian" family) that will be 
>> grandfathered into language subtags rather than extlangs.
> 
> I'm not sure what you are calling for here: should Serbo-Croatian
> be marked as a macrolanguage in the LSR or not?
> 

- Serbo-Croatian marked as a macrolanguage.
- Its constituent languages maintained as type 'language' and not 
converted to type 'extlang'.

Addison

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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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