[Ltru] Re: extlang

Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat dot net> wrote:

>> Yes, hence language tags such as "es-419" [Latin American Spanish, 
>> essentially]. This is a somewhat artificial distinction useful in 
>> certain contexts. But most language tags have some basis actual 
>> language distinctions.
>
> Thanks for reminding me of this (I believe John mentioned it a while 
> back). It might be an approach useful for a number of African 
> languages (Swahili and Hausa for starters, although each have 
> country-level locales already) and probably for such as African French 
> or English.

I brought this up once; John may have also.

Here are the numeric region subtags that refer to Africa:

002    Africa
011    Western Africa
014    Eastern Africa
015    Northern Africa
017    Middle Africa
018    Southern Africa

As a reminder, these are defined by the UN Statistics Division, not by 
ietf-languages.

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