Criteria for languages?
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Mon Nov 23 07:44:45 CET 2009
On 23 Nov 2009, at 05:12, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
> The issue I have is consistency. It appears that a different choice
> is being taken with regard to Walliserdeutsch than with respect to
> Latgalian. There appear to be no relevant differences between them
> in regard to the questions you raise.
>
> For that matter, if we go back in time, and not that long ago, there
> was probably Low German and Swiss German content marked as German.
> Why is it not appropriate to make German into a macrolanguage, with
> Standard German, Low German, and Swiss German (among others) as
> encompassed languages?
Exactly.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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