I approve the registration of iu-Latn
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Feb 17 14:02:24 CET 2005
LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester : Peter Constable
E-mail address of requester: <petercon at microsoft.com>
Tag to be registered : iu-Latn
English name of language : Inuktitut in Latin script
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): inuktitut
Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
Inuktitut is customarily written both in Latin script and in the
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic script.
It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of
documents written in a particular script. When looking up language
resources, this is even more important, so that text in different
scripts is not mixed.
Thus, it is important to be able to distinguish between scripts used
in writing iu: iu-Latn vs. iu-Cans.
References:
http://www.gov.nu.ca/cley/english/language.htm
http://www.language-museum.com/i/inuktitut-eastern-canadian.htm (Latin script)
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/esb.htm (syllabic script)
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