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Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard German"?

"Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com> Tue, 27 May 2008 22:30 UTC

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From: "Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
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For the record, John, with all the changes that have gone into ISO 639-3 since it was published, I think the skew (#3) may be more than you think. There are also issues where Ethnologue is not clear, such as the Erzgebirgische ambiguity we stumbled on by accident.

Regards,

Karen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>Of John Cowan
>Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:16 PM
>To: Gerard Meijssen
>Cc: LTRU Working Group
>Subject: Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard German"?
>
>Gerard Meijssen scripsit:
>
>> There are clear differences between Ethnologue and the ISO-639-3.
>There are
>> languages in Ethnologue that do not exist in the ISO-639--3 and
>the other
>> way round.
>
>Only in very minor ways.
>
>1) Ethnologue doesn't handle ancient or artificial languages -- the
>sub-registrar for them is Linguist List.
>
>2) Macrolanguages aren't in Ethnologue either.
>
>3) There may be some version skew where 639-3 has been updated but
>Ethnologue has not.
>
>--
>John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
>In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
>        --Brian K. Reid
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