Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian
Kent Karlsson
kent.karlsson14 at telia.com
Tue Apr 26 00:15:01 CEST 2016
Den 2016-04-25 00:36, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:
> On 24 Apr 2016, at 21:22, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> A further suggestion
>>
>> Suggest to the RA that they change the scope of
>> ³swe² to Macrolanguage, and have that macrolanguage entry encompass new
>> entries for Elfdalian and Swedish proper.
> I can only imagine years of
> discussion with the Swedish authorities who will not want to contemplate this.
> On top of that Elfdalian is not a variety of Swedish. Both are descendents
> of Norse. So the classification would be linguistically wrong.
Indeed, so please scrap this suggestion for macrolanguge.
/Kent K
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