Adding variant subtags 'aluku' and 'nduyka' and 'pamaka' for dialects
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Sun Aug 23 21:18:34 CEST 2009
Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>> The ISO 639-3 change cycle happens only once a year, takes
>> approximately five months, and the deadline for 2009 changes is
>> nearly on us.
>
> Really? Why? We sometimes do a very quick turn-around in the ISO 15924
> JAC.
One, it's their policy to have a lengthy and regular review cycle, and
two, they have 7,678 coded entities to deal with, not 136.
> I would like to avoid having to process change forms for these three
> subtags again later. Isn't that reasonable?
I'm not sure why we would have to change anything about the registration
forms for the variants if the ISO 639-3 name for the base language is
changed. I've thought all along that "Prefix: djk" should be sufficient
to identify the language to which the variant applies, and that neither
the Description nor Comments fields absolutely needs to duplicate this
information:
Language subtag: sl, "Slovenian"
Variant subtag: nedis, "Natisone dialect"
[of Slovenian, as implied by the Prefix field]
In fact, almost all of our registered variants do reiterate the base
language in the description: "Traditional *German* orthography," "The
Gniva dialect *of Resian*," "*Belarusian* in Taraskievica orthography,"
etc. That's not an awful lot of redundancy, but I don't see why we need
to agonize over the exact wording of the base language in either the
description or the comment, when it's already identified in the
prefix -- certainly not to the point where it holds up registration of
the three variants.
As far as I can tell, Pascal originally proposed these as dialects of
"the Busi Nenge Tongo Creole," and all was well until we started trying
too hard to link this descriptive name to the ISO-based name of the
language. If the language called "Aukan" by ISO 639 is also known as
"the Busi Nenge Tongo Creole," great, but how does that invalidate the
dialect proposals?
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