Last call: Latvian (and Bontok) extlang subtags

[Doug Ewell]

On January 30 I wrote:

> We do need to reach a final decision about whether to create extended 
> language subtags for Standard Latvian and Latgalian; in other words, 
> whether to add "Latvian" to the subset of macrolanguages which have 
> extlangs.  So far only a few of us have made our preferences known.

No discussion about this has taken place on-list since that time.

I would like to ask the Reviewer to make a final decision on the 
following two questions:

(1) Whether two new extended language subtags shall be created for 
Latgalian ("lv-ltg") and Standard Latvian ("lv-lvs"), which are new ISO 
639-3 code elements encompassed by Latvian ('lav'), recently 
reclassified as a macrolanguage, and

(2) Whether three new extended language subtags shall be created for 
Northern Bontok ("bnc-rbk"), Central Bontok ("bnc-lbk"), and 
Southwestern Bontok ("bnc-vbk"), which are new ISO 639-3 code elements 
encompassed by Bontok ('bnc'), recently reclassified as a macrolanguage 
and renamed from "Central Bontoc."

Arguments have been presented on-list, both pro and con, for question 
(1) since January 22, and off-and-on before then.  We have hardly 
mentioned question (2) at all and I suspect the answer will be "no," but 
I raise it here for completeness and consistency.

I will submit all the proposed records and registration forms for the 
Latvian and Bontok languages once I have heard a response from the 
Reviewer.

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Doug Ewell  |  Thornton, Colorado, USA  |  http://www.ewellic.org
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