LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM

[Michael Everson]

Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?


At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
>LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
>
>1. Name of requester:  Karen Broome
>2. E-mail address of requester:  karen_broome at spe.sony.com
>3. Record Requested:
>
>Type: Language
>Subtag: gsw
>Description: Swiss German
>Description: Alemannic
>Description: Alsatian
>Prefix:
>Preferred-Value:
>Deprecated:
>Suppress-Script: Latn
>Comments:
>
>
>4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>
>Not applicable
>
>5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
>
>Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World,
>Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
>
>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw
>
>
>6. Any other relevant information:
>
>This is a request to add Alsatian to the description list for Swiss German
>(gsw). This will not only clarify that this dialect is included in the gsw
>tag, but also improve search functions for users trying to find the
>correct tag for the French dialect of this language in the IANA registry.
>
>
>
>Karen Broome
>Metadata Systems Designer
>Sony Pictures Entertainment
>310.244.4384
>
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