Swiss german, spoken

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Jun 12 02:49:37 CEST 2005


At 20:43 -0400 2005-06-11, John.Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>>  The tags with we are concerned assume some sort of orthography.
>
>I disagree; they are perfectly usable, as in this case, for tagging
>recorded speech in sound recordings or video.

No, John. Schwyzertüütsch "written" is no 
different from Schwyzertüütsch "unwritten". If 
you need to distinguish between dialects of 
Schwyzertüütsch, that is one thing. These tags 
represent "names of languages", if this RFC 
extends ISo 639.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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