Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 101, Issue 8

[mailler at phare.normalesup.org]

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>    1. Re: Request of new variant subtag for kichwa (inside qu)
>       (Michael Everson)

> On 14 Jun 2011, at 19:29, Peter Constable wrote:
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>> From: mailler at phare.normalesup.org [mailto:mailler at phare.normalesup.org]
>>
>>> All these institutions use the Unified kichwa orthography, and could be
>>> usefully
>>> tagged with qu-kichwa.
>>
>> And do they all use the same language variety as well as the same
>> orthography?
>
> My understanding is that this is a literary orthography that covers
> several language varieties.
>
> Like Standard English, which serves folk in Yorkshire and Alabama.
>
Yes, the above-mentioned institutions use the same orthography, and as far
as I can see the language variety is the same.

>> If the language variety is the same in either of the above cases, is
>> that variety one of the already-coded individual Quechuan languages, or
>> is a distinct variety?
>
> A literary orthography is often a compromise.
>
This is the case here, the language variety used by these official
institutions is a compromise between all the regional varieties.

Yours,

Sylvain Mailler

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