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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