gender voice variants
Doug Ewell
doug at ewellic.org
Thu Dec 20 00:07:15 CET 2012
Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail dot com> wrote:
> That's not a rocket science. The needed actions are:
> * Recognize gender category as subtag (let's say "-gender-").
> * Recognize masculine and feminine genders (-gender-m-, -gender-f-).
> * Stay open if someone comes with sensible suggestion for particular
> language. (For example, Luganda could have "lg-gender-7".)
Variants don't normally have complex structure like this. The Resian
variants can form a lengthy chain, like "sl-rozaj-biske-1994", but
that's not quite the same. And you couldn't have single-letter variants
like 'm' and 'f' and '7' anyway.
What you're describing sounds more like an extension. This might be
wholly appropriate, if some list members feel these gender (etc.)
distinctions are "information that is commonly used in association with
languages or language tags but that is not part of language
identification."
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