Phonetic orthographies

Mon Nov 27 19:12:49 CET 2006

Yes, I'd  think you would just use the tag ar for Written Standard Arabic; 
it is not dialect-specific;
for phonetic transcriptions of spoken Arabic, or for a list of words from a 
particular dialect, you might want to add information about the 
dialect/variant.

--CEW

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>John Cowan wrote:
> > Gerard Meijssen scripsit:
> >
> > > Correct tagging implies that it is precise.
> >
> > This may be true in your particular application of language tagging,
> > but not in general.  Often precision is unobtainable or even
> > undesirable.  RFC 4646 says "tag wisely", *not* "tag exhaustively".
>
>Thanks for this remark re tagging. The way I read it, the appropriate or
>"wise" precision of the tagging depends on the context and need. In some
>cases, imprecision might accommodate reality more appropriately, and in
>others more precision would be indicated.
>
>In returning to the Wikipedia & WiktionaryZ discussion earlier, I would
>think that Wikipedia would not always want to be too precise (ISO-639-3 has
>20-some codes for Arabic, but you'd only want to use ISO-639-1's code ar 
>for
>ar.wikipedia.org [with only a rare possible exception]).
>
>On the other hand, WiktionaryZ might want to rely more systematically on
>ISO-639-3 (and eventually perhaps -6) which can specify the origins and use
>of words that may be particular in form, pronunciation or meaning according
>to dialect.
>
>
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