Correction for pinyin
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Wed Mar 10 01:44:12 CET 2010
I don't think there is any need to do this, but I will not oppose it.
On 9 Mar 2010, at 17:17, Doug Ewell wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2010-03-24
> %%
> 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
> %%
>
> ---
>
> 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'.
>
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
> RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s
>
>
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