Preliminary proposal for 225 language-country pairs

[Mark Davis]

Why do this? en_US is already definable. Is it to be able to have a
locale like en-PN_US, a locale with the conventions determined by the
variety of English used in the US as spoken by immigrants from
Pitcairn?

I am personally pushing for
en-1/4SE-1/8DE-1/8IE-1/8EN-1/8SC-1/8FR-1/8ES, for those speakers of
English with ancestry of 1/4 Swedish, 1/8 German, 1/8 Irish, etc.
(including England (SAR of the UK)).

Mark
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Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]

http://www.macchiato.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
To: <ietf-languages@iana.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 19:01
Subject: Preliminary proposal for 225 language-country pairs


> Attached is a list of 225 language-country pairs expressed as
> RFC 3066 two-part tags.  I gleaned these from SIL Ethnologue
> information about the official and national languages of
> countries.  There is (by intention) an entry for every
> country-language pair where the language is official/national
> in more than one country.
>
> For example, English is official/national in 76 countries,
> Danish in two, Burmese in one, and Navajo in none.
> Consequently, English gets 76 entries, Danish 2 entries,
> and Burmese and Navajo no entries in the list below.
>
> Please review this list, particularly with reference to
> omissions.  I have already spotted one myself (and fixed
> the list): en-US.
>
> The language names and country names are SIL's, and are
> only meant to aid comprehension: they are not normative.
>
> ar-AE Arabic United+Arab+Emirates
> ar-BH Arabic Bahrain
> ar-DZ Arabic Algeria
> ar-EG Arabic Egypt
> ar-IL Arabic Israel
> ar-IQ Arabic Iraq
> ar-JO Arabic Jordan
> ar-KW Arabic Kuwait
> ar-LB Arabic Lebanon
> ar-LY Arabic Libya
> ar-MA Arabic Morocco
> ar-MR Arabic Mauritania
> ar-OM Arabic Oman
> ar-PS Arabic Palestinian+West+Bank+and+Gaza
> ar-QA Arabic Qatar
> ar-SA Arabic Saudi+Arabia
> ar-SD Arabic Sudan
> ar-SO Arabic Somalia
> ar-SY Arabic Syria
> ar-TD Arabic Chad
> ar-TN Arabic Tunisia
> ar-YE Arabic Yemen
>
> bn-BD Bengali Bangladesh
> bn-IN Bengali India
> bn-SG Bengali Singapore
>
> ch-GU Chamorro Guam
> ch-MP Chamorro Northern+Mariana+Islands
>
> da-DK Danish Denmark
> da-GL Danish Greenland
>
> de-AT German Austria
> de-BE German Belgium
> de-CH German Switzerland
> de-DE German Germany
> de-DK German Denmark
> de-LI German Liechtenstein
> de-LU German Luxembourg
>
> el-CY Greek Cyprus
> el-GR Greek Greece
>
> en-AG English Antigua+and+Barbuda
> en-AI English Anguilla
> en-AS English American+Samoa
> en-AU English Australia
> en-BB English Barbados
> en-BM English Bermuda
> en-BN English Brunei
> en-BS English Bahamas
> en-BW English Botswana
> en-BZ English Belize
> en-CA English Canada
> en-CK English Cook+Islands
> en-CM English Cameroon
> en-DM English Dominica
> en-ER English Eritrea
> en-ET English Ethiopia
> en-FJ English Fiji
> en-FK English Falkland+Islands
> en-FM English Micronesia
> en-GB English United+Kingdom
> en-GD English Grenada
> en-GH English Ghana
> en-GI English Gibraltar
> en-GM English Gambia
> en-GU English Guam
> en-GY English Guyana
> en-IE English Ireland
> en-IL English Israel
> en-IO English British+Indian+Ocean+Territory
> en-JM English Jamaica
> en-KE English Kenya
> en-KI English Kiribati
> en-KN English St.+Kitts-Nevis
> en-KY English Cayman+Islands
> en-LC English St.+Lucia
> en-LR English Liberia
> en-LS English Lesotho
> en-MP English Northern+Mariana+Islands
> en-MS English Montserrat
> en-MT English Malta
> en-MU English Mauritius
> en-MW English Malawi
> en-NA English Namibia
> en-NF English Norfolk+Island
> en-NG English Nigeria
> en-NR English Nauru
> en-NU English Niue
> en-NZ English New+Zealand
> en-PG English Papua+New+Guinea
> en-PH English Philippines
> en-PK English Pakistan
> en-PN English Pitcairn
> en-PR English Puerto+Rico
> en-PW English Palau
> en-RW English Rwanda
> en-SB English Solomon+Islands
> en-SC English Seychelles
> en-SG English Singapore
> en-SH English St.+Helena
> en-SL English Sierra+Leone
> en-SO English Somalia
> en-SZ English Swaziland
> en-TC English Turks+and+Caicos+Islands
> en-TK English Tokelau
> en-TO English Tonga
> en-TT English Trinidad+and+Tobago
> en-UG English Uganda
> en-US English USA
> en-VC English St.+Vincent+and+the+Grenadi
> en-VG English British+Virgin+Islands
> en-VI English U.S.+Virgin+Islands
> en-VU English Vanuatu
> en-WS English Western+Samoa
> en-ZA English South+Africa
> en-ZM English Zambia
> en-ZW English Zimbabwe
>
> es-AR Spanish Argentina
> es-BO Spanish Bolivia
> es-CL Spanish Chile
> es-CO Spanish Colombia
> es-CR Spanish Costa+Rica
> es-CU Spanish Cuba
> es-DO Spanish Dominican+Republic
> es-EC Spanish Ecuador
> es-ES Spanish Spain
> es-GQ Spanish Equatorial+Guinea
> es-GT Spanish Guatemala
> es-HN Spanish Honduras
> es-MX Spanish Mexico
> es-NI Spanish Nicaragua
> es-PA Spanish Panama
> es-PE Spanish Peru
> es-PR Spanish Puerto+Rico
> es-PY Spanish Paraguay
> es-SV Spanish El+Salvador
> es-US Spanish USA
> es-UY Spanish Uruguay
> es-VE Spanish Venezuela
>
> fr-AD French Andorra
> fr-BE French Belgium
> fr-BF French Burkina+Faso
> fr-BI French Burundi
> fr-BJ French Benin
> fr-CA French Canada
> fr-CD French Democratic+Republic+of+Congo
> fr-CF French Central+African+Republic
> fr-CG French Congo
> fr-CH French Switzerland
> fr-CI French Cote+d'Ivoire
> fr-CM French Cameroon
> fr-DJ French Djibouti
> fr-FR French France
> fr-GA French Gabon
> fr-GB French United+Kingdom
> fr-GF French French+Guiana
> fr-GN French Guinea
> fr-GP French Guadeloupe
> fr-HT French Haiti
> fr-IT French Italy
> fr-KM French Comoros+Islands
> fr-LB French Lebanon
> fr-LU French Luxembourg
> fr-MC French Monaco
> fr-MG French Madagascar
> fr-ML French Mali
> fr-MQ French Martinique
> fr-NC French New+Caledonia
> fr-PF French French+Polynesia
> fr-PM French St.+Pierre+and+Miquelon
> fr-RE French Reunion
> fr-RW French Rwanda
> fr-SC French Seychelles
> fr-TD French Chad
> fr-TG French Togo
> fr-VU French Vanuatu
> fr-WF French Wallis+and+Futuna
> fr-YT French Mayotte
>
> hr-BA Croatian Bosnia-Herzegovina
> hr-HR Croatian Croatia
>
> hu-HU Hungarian Hungary
> hu-SI Hungarian Slovenia
>
> it-CH Italian Switzerland
> it-HR Italian Croatia
> it-IT Italian Italy
> it-SI Italian Slovenia
> it-SM Italian San+Marino
>
> ko-KP Korean Korea,+North
> ko-KR Korean Korea,+South
>
> ln-CD Lingala Democratic+Republic+of+Congo
> ln-CG Lingala Congo
>
> ms-BN Malay Brunei
> ms-MY Malay Malaysia
> ms-SG Malay Singapore
>
> nl-AN Dutch Netherlands+Antilles
> nl-AW Dutch Aruba
> nl-BE Dutch Belgium
> nl-NL Dutch Netherlands
> nl-SR Dutch Suriname
>
> pt-AO Portuguese Angola
> pt-BR Portuguese Brazil
> pt-CV Portuguese Cape+Verde+Islands
> pt-GW Portuguese Guinea-Bissau
> pt-MZ Portuguese Mozambique
> pt-PT Portuguese Portugal
> pt-ST Portuguese Sao+Tome+e+Principe
>
> sd-IN Sindhi India
> sd-PK Sindhi Pakistan
>
> sr-BA Serbian Bosnia-Herzegovina
> sr-YU Serbian Yugoslavia
>
> ss-SZ Swati Swaziland
> ss-ZA Swati South+Africa
>
> sv-FI Swedish Finland
> sv-SE Swedish Sweden
>
> sw-KE Swahili Kenya
> sw-TZ Swahili Tanzania
>
> ta-IN Tamil India
> ta-SG Tamil Singapore
>
> tn-BW Tswana Botswana
> tn-ZA Tswana South+Africa
>
> tr-BG Turkish Bulgaria
> tr-CY Turkish Cyprus
> tr-TR Turkish Turkey
>
> ur-IN Urdu India
> ur-PK Urdu Pakistan
>
> zh-CN Mandarin+Chinese China
> zh-SG Mandarin+Chinese Singapore
> zh-TW Mandarin+Chinese Taiwan
>
> --
> John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
cowan@ccil.org
> To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.
There
> are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the
language
> that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was
wonderful.
>         --_The Hobbit_
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