Re: [Ltru] Re: Macrolanguage and extlang

Kent Karlsson scripsit:

> > > For example, the language subtags 'nb' (Norwegian Bokmal) and 'nn' 
> > > (Norwegian Nynorsk) has a Macrolanguage entry of 'no' (Norwegian).
> > 
> > "subtags... have"
> 
> Should that not be "each of ... subtags ... has"?

That adds emphasis, but Doug's version is not incorrect.

> With this particular example it should be noted that both
> the spoken and the written languages are different. (So 'no'
> would be better as a (rather small) collection than a
> macrolanguage... 

Not so, for we speak of the Norwegian language, not the Norwegian
languages; and yet Bokmaal and Nynorsk are separate (written)
languages.  This is the very essence of what it is to be a macrolanguage.

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