Criteria for languages?

Randy Presuhn randy_presuhn at mindspring.com
Fri Dec 4 22:42:25 CET 2009


Hi -

> From: "Mark Davis ☕" <mark at macchiato.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
> Cc: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Criteria for languages?
...
> A strict approach would be that if Latgalian is indeed a different language
> from (mutually incomprehensible with) Latvian, then it was incorrect to tag
> any Latgalian with "lav", and we just encode a new language and move on.
> Same for Walliserdeutsch.

Precisely.  The question is just how mutually (in)comprehensible the are,
and regardless of one's faith in reasonable people, that leaves a lot
of wiggle room.

Randy




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