Addition request: alsatian

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

Well, I think the point of the "gem" tag was that it covered various 
Germanic languages, including Swiss German. We don't expect languages to 
be mutually intelligible, only dialects (and even there it can be fuzzy 
especially with this group of dialects).

I can't see any reference to "gem" in Ethnologue 15, only Ethnologue 14. 
Your "fry" issue may not have been discovered until work began on the 15th 
edition at which point this tag seems to have been deprecated. It's not in 
639-3 as far as I can tell.

Karen






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<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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