LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
Addison Phillips
addison at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Jan 9 23:24:59 CET 2008
Note: although it has never been done, RFC 4646 does permit additional
descriptions, in any language, to be registered for a subtag. The only
restriction is that changing the restriction cannot change or narrow the
meaning of the subtag.
In practice, I think we should mostly follow what ISO does, but it is
NOT a requirement and this is one of the types of cases for which it was
envisioned.
Addison
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
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> Ah .... I will make the change request to ISO if that's where it
> belongs. If this tag was ISO 639-3 only, the reference to Ethnologue
> might be more valid. But yeah, this is ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3. Have we
> ever veered from the ISO language list's names in language descriptions
> (other than to delete the French names)?
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> Karen Broome
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> *Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>*
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> 01/09/2008 01:51 PM
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> Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
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> Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?
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> At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
> >LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM
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> >1. Name of requester: Karen Broome
> >2. E-mail address of requester: karen_broome at spe.sony.com
> >3. Record Requested:
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> >Type: Language
> >Subtag: gsw
> >Description: Swiss German
> >Description: Alemannic
> >Description: Alsatian
> >Prefix:
> >Preferred-Value:
> >Deprecated:
> >Suppress-Script: Latn
> >Comments:
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> >4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
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> >Not applicable
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> >5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
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> >Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World,
> >Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
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> >http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw
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> >6. Any other relevant information:
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> >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.
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> >Karen Broome
> >Metadata Systems Designer
> >Sony Pictures Entertainment
> >310.244.4384
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