ISO 639-3 releases list of 2009 changes

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sat Jan 23 10:06:46 CET 2010


Mark Davis â?? scripsit:

> Even if that were the case, why does "Standard" prevent making a
> macrolangauge? 

Into what mutually unintelligible languages do you suppose that Standard
German could be divided?  If the denotation of 'de(u)' were something broader
than Standard German, one might well suppose that it would become a macrolanguage
eventually, but such is not the case.

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