Phonetic orthographies

Gerard Meijssen gerardm at wiktionaryz.org
Sat Nov 11 10:50:40 CET 2006


John Cowan wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen scripsit:
>
>   
>> Hoi,
>>     
>
> coi
>
>   
>> Actually, zh is only to be used within the confines of ISO-639-1 and 
>> ISO-639-2. The new standard has zh and consequently zho marked as a 
>> macro language. Making assumptions on the basis of the zh code is only 
>> useful for the hopefully short period until the use of zh is only to be 
>> used for historical reasons.
>>     
>
> That turns out not to be the case.  According to the current plan
> for the successor to RFC 4646 (the current version), the individual
> languages encompassed by zh will be specified in the form zh-cmn,
> zh-yue, zh-nan, etc. etc.
Hoi,
I hope this is a plan that can be changed. Zh is no longer considered a 
language.
Thanks,
    Gerard


http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zho


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