acade - LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Aug 26 10:47:03 CEST 2008


On 26 Aug 2008, at 09:43, Yury Tarasievich wrote:

> Michael Everson wrote:
> ...
>> At present I am favouring YYYYacad as we have for French, if the
>> orthography can be pointed to a codified source.
>
> But such numbering would be somewhat bogus.
> At the very least, 1959, 1985 and, now, also 2008 versions (to be
> formally introduced in the 2010, but already used for some years in  
> some
> sources) are used quite interchangeably.

Interchangeably? What do you do about spell-checking?

In principle 1959acad, 1985acad, and 2008acad could be quite useful in  
such a context.

"Academy" by itself is too vague, and could apply to any country.

What is "Institute of Linguistics of Academy of Sciences of Belarus"  
in Belarusian?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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