be-tarask language subtag registration form

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 21:57:15 CEST 2007


Doug Ewell schreef:
> Peter's option B is the best choice -- identify the political issues 
> so they can be discarded, then evaluate the request and accept (or 
> reject) solely on the basis of language-identification issues.
>
> I, for one, don't care if a group exists that wants its own Wiki page 
> and the Wiki Foundation has said no.  That's not why we register subtags.
>
> To me, the claims that Taraskievica should not be given a subtag 
> because it doesn't reflect the "original" orthography as claimed 
> brings to mind the disturbing debate over encoding Ol Chiki in 
> Unicode, where some opponent groups claimed the Ol Chiki script 
> encouraged non-standard and inferior grammatical usage and otherwise 
> threatened the integrity of the Santali nation.  This sort of argument 
> has no place here.  If Taraskievica is in use, and well enough 
> documented for a subtag to have meaning, it ought to have a subtag. 
Hoi,
It all depends on the definition, this orthography is said to be 
formalised in 2005 ..

As long as /*all */orthographies have a tag, I am fine. Once there is a 
code, I will add both the option in OmegaWiki for all the orthographies..
Thanks,
    Gerard


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