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"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> Tue, 20 March 2007 13:55 UTC

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GerardM <gerard dot meijssen at gmail dot com> wrote:

> When you have a choice between ar-EG and arz and think you can say 
> they are the same, how would you then code spoken Egyptian as used by 
> the immigrant community in the USA ?? I would say that ar-arz-US and 
> arz-US are appropriate. The notion that ar-EG is necessarily the same 
> as arz is imho wrong.

"-US" is appropriate only to the extent that the immigrant community 
speaks a sufficiently different flavor of (Egyptian) Arabic to justify 
different tagging.  It is not justified if the language is the same as 
spoken in Egypt, but the people happen to reside in the United States.

> Coding it like ar-EG-US is probably not acceptable.

Of course not.

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