Analysis of ISO 639 and mappings to SIL Ethnologue

Stefan Persson alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:31:39 +0100


----- Original Message -----
From: "Audun H. Lona" <alona@c2i.net>
To: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>; <unicore@unicode.org>;
<ietf-languages@eikenes.alvestrand.no>; <iso639@dkuug.dk>;
<langtag@unicode.org>; <www-international@w3.org>;
<locales@yahoogroups.com>; <i18n-prog@yahoogroups.com>; "Trond Trosterud "
<Trond.Trosterud@hum.uit.no>; "Håvard Hjulstad" <havard@hjulstad.com>
Sent: den 17 februari 2002 01:54
Subject: SV: Analysis of ISO 639 and mappings to SIL Ethnologue


> The Norwegian and Sami language pages on this web site are unfortunately
> so full of errors that they should be removed or corrected immediately
> in order to avoid misleading information to be spread.
>
> An example on http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LPR
> Dialects RUIJA, TORNE, SEA LAPPISH. Ruija is the Finnish name for the
> territory covered by Northern-Troms and Finnmark provinces (fylker), its
> not a dialect.

Isn't that *both* the Finnish name for the territory *and* the Finnish name
for the dialect?

Stefan


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