Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Sun Nov 15 08:21:57 CET 2009
John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
> Quoth http://sil.org/iso639-3/types.asp :
>
> This part of ISO 639 also includes identifiers that denote constructed
> (or artificial) languages. In order to qualify for inclusion the
> language must have a literature and it must be designed for the
> purpose of human communication. Specifically excluded are
> reconstructed languages and computer programming languages.
The fuzzy part, of course, is "must have a literature." The overly
ambitious language inventor might try to claim that his translations of
"Happy Birthday to You" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," posted on his Web
site, constitute a literature.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
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