LANGUAGE SUBTAG REQUEST FORM, Erzgebirgisch

[Frank Ellermann]

Caoimhin O Donnaile wrote:

>> Fortunately there is no "sxu" in the registry (yet),
>> we can ignore it.

> There will be very soon though, when ISO 639-3 gets included:
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=s

Yes, I saw it in the 4645bis-02 draft, but "very soon" depends
on the approval of a 4646bis draft.  Currently 4646bis proposes
to add region codes AC, DG, EA, EU, IC, ... to the IANA registry.
 
> In my "ideal world", language/dialect codes would have four 
> (or maybe five) characters - enough to give all languages past
> and present, all the dialects we are likely to deal with, and
> all macrolanguages at every level an atomic code.

Then 639-6 might be for you, RFC 4646 and 4646bis reserve four
letter codes for it.

 Frank