Addition request: alsatian

Frank Ellermann nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Thu Jan 10 00:35:16 CET 2008


<Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com> wrote:

 [before gsw]
> the best "broad" tag for Schwyzerdütsch and other Germanic variants
> spoken in Europe was "gem" not "de" though I realize this content
> could have previously been tagged as either "de-FR" or "gem-FR"
> depending on the classifier. 

gem also covered frr - from my POV there's an important difference 
between gsw and frr, I can understand some gsw, but none of the frr
variants.  The Ethnologue page confuses me, apparently it says that
fry does not belong to gem, but frr and frs do.   

 Frank



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