en-GB-oxford LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Peter_Constable at sil.org
Peter_Constable at sil.org
Fri May 30 18:24:30 CEST 2003
John Clews wrote on 05/30/2003 03:58:46 PM:
> The use of -us, -en, -au subtags (before -oed) would appear to
> indicate that this relates to written language, and not do a spoken
> form.
Not a priori.
> spinoffs), while en-oed or en-oxford would relate to a spoken form
> (as in "Oxford English on the BBC")
If that's how they're defined when (assuming if) registered, but at present
nothing requires that.
> At least that's the consensus that I picked up.
I must have missed that thread.
> ll-cc-anything for "written language tags" and
I thought that the distinctions between es-MX, es-AR, es-CO etc. were
primarily dialectal (esp. vocab), whether for audio or text data.
- Peter
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