wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs

[Frank Ellermann]

John Cowan wrote:

>> Out of curiosity, why is "cmn" no ISO 639-2 language, when
>> it is used by roughly 1/6 of the human population on the
>> planet ?
 
> Because 639-2 is designed for use by bibliographers, who can't
> be bothered with the difference between Classical Chinese,
> Modern Standard Mandarin, Cantonese, and whatever.

They saw the difference between "art" and "tlh", or between
"frs" and other Frisian languages.  Something is fishy here,
it reminds me of JFC's anglosaxon conspiracy theories. 

 Frank