Records and registration forms for 'yue'

[Doug Ewell]

Below are proposed records and registration forms to add the Description
field "Cantonese" to the existing primary and extended language subtag
records for 'yue', which per ISO 639-3 currently have the single
description "Yue Chinese".

My intent is to help others avoid the embarrassing mistake I made this
week, claiming that Cantonese and Yue were different.

The field "Any other relevant information" in the registration forms is
an attempt to summarize the relationship between the Yue branch and the
Cantonese dialect, and clarify that the meaning of the subtags has not
changed. If anyone has concerns about this, and thinks this proposal
might cause the subtags to be misused or misunderstood, we can discuss
adding "Includes Cantonese" as a comment instead of adding a new
Description field.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2014-10-09
%%
Type: language
Subtag: yue
Description: Yue Chinese
Description: Cantonese
Added: 2009-07-29
Macrolanguage: zh
%%

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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: yue
Description: Yue Chinese
Description: Cantonese
Macrolanguage: zh
%%

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

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

6. Any other relevant information:

This registration adds the additional Description field "Cantonese" to
the existing primary language subtag 'yue'. Cantonese is the prestige
dialect of Yue, spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao. This subtag
continues to represent all dialects within the Yue branch.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2014-10-09
%%
Type: extlang
Subtag: yue
Description: Yue Chinese
Description: Cantonese
Added: 2009-07-29
Preferred-Value: yue
Prefix: zh
Macrolanguage: zh
%%

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org

3. Record Requested:

Type: extlang
Subtag: yue
Description: Yue Chinese
Description: Cantonese
Preferred-Value: yue
Prefix: zh
Macrolanguage: zh

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

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

6. Any other relevant information:

This registration adds the additional Description field "Cantonese" to
the existing extended language subtag 'yue'. Cantonese is the prestige
dialect of Yue, spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao. This subtag
continues to represent all dialects within the Yue branch.


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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell