Language Subtag Registration
Phillips, Addison
addison at lab126.com
Mon Oct 12 19:07:32 CEST 2015
Nfld is too short. It needs to be at least five letters (or four numbers) to make a valid subtag.
Addison.
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From: Ietf-languages [ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] on behalf of Marc Moisan [webmaster at moisan.ca]
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 6:10 PM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Language Subtag Registration
LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: Marc Moisan
2. E-mail address of requester: webmaster @ moisan.ca
3. Record Requested:
Type: variant
Subtag: nfld
Description: Newfoundland English
Prefix: en-CA
4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
The subtag is intended to represent the dialect of Canadian English
spoken in the
province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sometimes referred as
"Newfinese" the dialect
differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere.
5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
article):
W.J. Kirwin, G.M. Story and J.D.A. Widdowson, eds. "Dictionary of
Newfoundland English",
2nd ed. (University of Toronto Press, 1990). [ISBN: 978-0802068194]
Nellie P. Strowbridge, "The Newfoundland Tongue" (St. John's, NL:
Flanker Press, 2008).
[ISBN: 978-1897317235]
R.A. Bragg, "Traditional Newfie Talk: The First English Language of
North America"
(Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 2015). [ISBN: 978-1771083034]
6. Any other relevant information:
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_English
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