Correction for pinyin

[Doug Ewell]

Below are a proposed record and registration form, submitted somewhat
defensively, to use the Comments field instead of the Description for
annotating the existing entry for the Pinyin language.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-03-24
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Type: language
Subtag: pny
Description: Pinyin
Added: 2009-07-29
Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be confused
  with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and Tibetan
%%

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: language
   Subtag: pny
   Description: Pinyin
   Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be
     confused with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and
     Tibetan

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

   Ethnologue description at
   http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pny

6. Any other relevant information:

   The Pinyin language, spoken by ~24,600 people in Cameroon, is not
   related to the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system used for writing
   Chinese, or the Tibetan Pinyin romanization system used for writing
   Tibetan, in the Latin alphabet.  These systems are represented by
   the variant subtag 'pinyin'.


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