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Re: [Ltru] extlang for users

"Kent Karlsson" <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> Tue, 27 May 2008 18:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] extlang for users
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> Naturally, there exists a grey area: is Danish so different from
> Norwegian?

While Bokmål and Danish as written languages are quite similar
(for historical reasons), just some minor differences in vocabulary,
spoken Danish and spoken Bokmål are quite different (and indeed
the dialects of Danish are also quite varying, to the extent that
some are nearly incomprehensible even to other Danes). A
macrolanguage "dab" encompassing Danish and Bokmål, anyone...
Or maybe one that covers "Scandinavian"? "Scandinavian" as an
individual language is taught in Iceland, since Icelandic is not
comprehensible by Scandinavians.

I'm not actually proposing to register the abovementioned putative
"macrolanguages" (neither as three- (in 639-3) nor five-letter
(LSR only) code). But a code for "Scandinavian" as an individual
language (used in Iceland & Scandinavia, for Icelanders
communicating with Scandinavians, not among Icelanders) may
be useful. A language ISO 639-3 seems to lack a code for...
 
	/kent k

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