I approve the registration of zh-Hans (Chinese, in simplified
script)
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu May 29 22:33:43 CEST 2003
LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester : Mark Davis
E-mail address of requester: mark.davis at jtcvs.com
Tag to be registered : zh-Hans
English name of language : simplified Chinese
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): zhong wen (jian ti zi)
Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
Chinese is customarily written in two very different script variants,
called simplified and traditional. It is often required, when
matching languages, to select a subset of documents written in a
particular script variant. When looking up language resources, this
is even more important, so that text in different script variants is
not mixed.
References:
Ramsey, S. Robert. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987. Paper. ISBN: 0-691-01468-X
Wang, W. S-Y. Languages and Dialects of China. Journal of Chinese
Linguistics Monograph Series No. 3. Berkeley: Journal of Chinese
Linguistics, 1991
Boltz, William G. The Origin and Development of the Chinese Writing
System. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1994. ISBN: 0-940490-78-1
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