Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard German"?

Gerard Meijssen scripsit:

> There are clear differences between Ethnologue and the ISO-639-3. There are
> languages in Ethnologue that do not exist in the ISO-639--3 and the other
> way round. 

Only in very minor ways.

1) Ethnologue doesn't handle ancient or artificial languages -- the
sub-registrar for them is Linguist List.

2) Macrolanguages aren't in Ethnologue either.

3) There may be some version skew where 639-3 has been updated but
Ethnologue has not.

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