Sign Languages and early 639 standards

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon Oct 6 21:01:55 CEST 2008


Chris Cox scripsit:

> the absence of sign languages until 639-3 has IMO nothing to do with
> recognition as languages but to do with the requirement for proof of some 50
> published works in the language to qualify for a two or three letter
> representation and name.

The works need not be published.  See
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/criteria2.html for details.
It would be easy to find five institutions which among them hold 50 or
more videos with sign-language content.

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