LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: respell

[Mark Davis ☕]

   LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
   1. Name of requester:

Mark Davis

   2. E-mail address of requester:

markdavis at google.com

   3. Record Requested:

      Type:
variant
      Subtag:
respell
      Description:
Indicates a transcription of content based on a pronunciation
respelling, such as "nāshən" for "nation"
      Prefix:
      Preferred-Value:
      Deprecated:
      Suppress-Script:
      Macrolanguage:
      Comments:

   4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

Indicates that the content is a pronunciation respelling of the
language in question. For example, the transcription "nāshən" or
"nayshuhn" for the word "nation" could use the tag "en-respell". As
another example, in  monolingual Korean dictionaries give the
pronunciation of a word in a restricted subset of Hangul where
syllables can only end in certain consonants (e.g. U11A8 JONGSONG
KIYEOK is allowed, but U11A9 JONGSEONG SSANGKIYEOK and U11AA JONGSEONG
KIYEOK-SIOS are forbidden). This can be represented by "ko-respell".

For most purposes, this variant subtag is sufficient; such systems are
typically designed to be understood by native speakers without
recourse to a formal system, such as "nayshuhn" in the NBC Handbook of
Pronunciation.  Where it becomes important to distinguish precisely a
particular respelling method, that should be done by registration
using this variant as a prefix, so that truncation matching works
properly. For example, if it were necessary to distinguish precisely
the form used by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, then a
variant could be registered such as mwcoll, allowing the use of
en-respell-mwcoll.

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

For general background information, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_respelling_for_English.
There are a wide variety of different respelling methods: the primary
sources for many of them can be found on that page.

   6. Any other relevant information: