Request of new variant subtag for kichwa (inside qu)

Caoimhin O Donnaile caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk
Wed Jun 8 16:57:56 CEST 2011


On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, mailler at phare.normalesup.org wrote:

> Regarding the dialects, from my own experience (which is not a proof),
> people speaking distinct dialect/languages can understand each other
> pretty well, not worse than persons speaking  distinct occitan dialects
> for example, so I don't really understand the SIL logic when it has 8
> language codes for quechua inside Ecuador

The Linguistlist Composite Tree:

   http://multitree.org/trees/Quechuan%3A%20Composite

seems to divide things up less finely than does SIL.

Caoimhín


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