Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang

Martin Duerst scripsit:

> I'm sure you have done so somewhere already, but for everybody
> to see, could you (pointer is okay) provide a list of the
> macrolanguages that would be handled by extlangs?

Note that it's the "microlanguages" (not an official term), the languages
encompassed by macrolanguages, that are handled by extlang subtags.

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/macrolanguages.asp is the core list of
macrolanguage mappings.  For our purposes, the macrolanguages Akan
(Fat, Twi), Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), and Serbo-Croatian (Serbian,
Croatian, Bosnian) are out of the case, because the "microlanguages"
already have primary language subtags.  (Mark has mentioned the Norwegian
and Serbo-Croatian cases as ones that one needs to handle specially even
under an extlang regime.)

In addition to these, "sgn" is treated as a macrolanguage
encompassing all sign languages.  A list of these can be found at
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008 (the Deaf ones)
and http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90503 (the others).

> (and maybe also those that wouldn't).

That would be all the existing languages of 639-2, plus all
the languages of 639-3 that do *not* appear on the right
side of the above-referenced table.

> Also, is your proposal above the same thing as what's in the
> current draft, or would the draft need tweaking?

I understand it to be the same.

-- 
There are three kinds of people in the world:   John Cowan
those who can count,                            cowan@ccil.org
and those who can't.

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