Changing definition of German (was: Re: ISO 639-3 releases list of 2009 changes)

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Jan 25 09:10:52 CET 2010


From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Leif Halvard Silli

> It looks as if macrolanguages status is most often awarded to a code which 
> cover two or more "language instances" that aren't divided by a border. 
> That is: When there is no region tag to make the distinction. 

If there are any correlations of this nature, it was not at all by design.



Peter


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